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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ar, ending June 30. This assessment to be in lieuof all annual dues and shall be paid to the Treasurer ofthe Association on or before the first day of Decembereach year. The Executive Committee shall have nopower to expend, for any purpose whatever, an amountexceeding that received. Results of Reducing Omnibus Fares in London. As an illustration of the fact that a reduction in faresdoes not always mean an increase in traffic sufficient tobring net profits to their former level, the case of thegreat omnibus companies in London may be useful.There has been a sharp warfare of rates which hasbrought about a general cut in fares. The largest com-pany, the London General Omnibus Company, has, dur-ing the past year, operated sixty more buses, run 316,000more miles, and carried 3,695,000 more passengers, andyet has realized only $4,665 more in gross receipts, itsnet income being very largely reduced. The other com-panies have lost proportionately more. Fkkruary, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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Street Railway Roadbed. By Mason D. Pratt. //.—Modern Girder Rail Sections. At the beginning of the present decade the six andseven inch sections shown in this and the previous articlewere the most approved rails in use, and indeed theseven inch sections continue to be largely used on elec-tric roads laid in asphalt or brick pavements, or even inshallow Belgian block pavements where the ties are im-bedded in concrete. The latter construction while notcommon in this country is coming more into vogue.These seven inch sections are also the ones most used oncable and conduit electric roads, where the rail is sup-ported on cast iron yokes and the pavement rests on aconcrete base. Fig. 47 shows a seven inch rail latelyadopted by the Metropolitan Street Railway Companyof New York City for use on its lines, most of whichwill eventually be cable or conduit electric. It is peculiar

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