An Electric Elevated Road In England

No misgivings need apply to the case of the new railway at Liverpool. ín size and power, as well as in the ingemiity of its details, it surpasses the best American niodgls. It extends along the quays of the great line of docks on the Mersey f or neariy seven'mües. lts carriages are of full size, not arranged like a tram car, tmt like the ordinary passenger car of the United States, each being in two compartinents and capaple of seating 57 persons. Beneath each car is an electric motor of from 100 to 70 horsepower, and the speed will be as high as 30 miles an hour. The power to work the trains, and with them the accessories of signáis and light, is the same, and generated from a single point on the system. The whole runs upon an "overhead railroad" or continuous bridge of iron. That is not, however, of the essence of an electric railway, thongh the lightness of electric rolling e-par makes sueh an arransement cheap