From the Kearney Files
Sydney Herald 19th September 1921.
UNDER THE HARBOUR
The Proposed Tube.
Interviewed in regard to the scheme for a proposed tunnel and electric railway under the harbour from Circular Quay to Milson's Point. Mr. H. W. Booth, who is representing Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney, the inventor of the Kearney High Speed Railway, of London, gave an outline of the proposals, and emphasised Mr. Kearney's claims for their serious consideration.
Mr. Kearney is prepared to construct a tube in one year, at a cost of £700,000, Mr. Booth said. He does not recommend passengers and vehicular traffic in the one tunnel. The cost of the two tubes would, he estimated, not exceed two and a quarter millions, and both could be built simultaneously. The annual interest costs on the completed and equipped would-be only £150,000, thus saving £360,000 per annum as compared with similar costs on a bridge.
Mr. Kearney, said Mr. Booth, is is recognised as one of the world's greatest experts in tube construction, and has been connected with every tube in London in recent years. He is Australian born, and has for a number of years devoted himself exclusively to the solution of rapid transit problems. He is thoroughly familiar with the principal systems in London, New York , Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Glasgow, Manchester and Toronto.
In 1914 he secured the adoption of the high railway and gradient systems for the proposed railway between Venice and the Lido, his plans in this connection showing a saving of £300,000 in comparison with next lowest tender. Mr. Kearney has secured the concession for the Nice and Monte Carlo electric railway, because of the enormous saving effected on the general plans. His system of railway tube has already been adopted for the proposed railway between The Strand and Crystal Palace in London. Mr. Kearney continued Mr Booth, has been considering the harbour tunnel for ten years, and was about to offer this completed scheme when the war intervened.
Sydney Herald 19th September 1921.
UNDER THE HARBOUR
The Proposed Tube.
Interviewed in regard to the scheme for a proposed tunnel and electric railway under the harbour from Circular Quay to Milson's Point. Mr. H. W. Booth, who is representing Mr. E. W. Chalmers Kearney, the inventor of the Kearney High Speed Railway, of London, gave an outline of the proposals, and emphasised Mr. Kearney's claims for their serious consideration.
Mr. Kearney is prepared to construct a tube in one year, at a cost of £700,000, Mr. Booth said. He does not recommend passengers and vehicular traffic in the one tunnel. The cost of the two tubes would, he estimated, not exceed two and a quarter millions, and both could be built simultaneously. The annual interest costs on the completed and equipped would-be only £150,000, thus saving £360,000 per annum as compared with similar costs on a bridge.
Mr. Kearney, said Mr. Booth, is is recognised as one of the world's greatest experts in tube construction, and has been connected with every tube in London in recent years. He is Australian born, and has for a number of years devoted himself exclusively to the solution of rapid transit problems. He is thoroughly familiar with the principal systems in London, New York , Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Glasgow, Manchester and Toronto.
In 1914 he secured the adoption of the high railway and gradient systems for the proposed railway between Venice and the Lido, his plans in this connection showing a saving of £300,000 in comparison with next lowest tender. Mr. Kearney has secured the concession for the Nice and Monte Carlo electric railway, because of the enormous saving effected on the general plans. His system of railway tube has already been adopted for the proposed railway between The Strand and Crystal Palace in London. Mr. Kearney continued Mr Booth, has been considering the harbour tunnel for ten years, and was about to offer this completed scheme when the war intervened.
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