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 are provided with pits to enable the trucks and under-gear to be examined. All running repairs and cleaning are effected in these two car sheds, most of the work of necessity being carried out at night. A few machine tools are installed at each car shed for the carrying out of small repair work.

The number of passenger cars at the present time is 169. Of these 24 are of the four-wheeled type, coupled in pairs, each with a seating capacity for 56 passengers; 108 cars, with seating for 52 passengers, are of the vestibule composite type, equipped with bogie trucks, and the majority with two 50 h.p. motors. The remaining 37 are of various types, including six double-decked cars. All the cars are fitted with glass fronts, to afford protection from the weather, and with three types of brakes—an air and a hand brake to operate on the wheels, and a slipper brake to operate on the rails. The construction of ten new passenger cars has been authorised.

In addition to the passenger cars there are two freight cars used for the carriage of material between the stores and depôts.

The total length of line measured as single track is 51.65 miles, made up of 3.37 miles of single track and 24.14 miles of double track. The gauge of the track is