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Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (find matches)
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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!0 40 60 Time hi Seconds 20 40 CO Time In Seconds 100 Street Rv. Journal FIG. 2 Central London Railway has been placed with the ElectricTraction Company, Ltd., a company organized espe-cially for carrying out this work, for a sum slightly less CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY EXISTING UNDERGROUND LINES.
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FIG. 1—MAP SHOWING ROUTE OF CENTRAL UNDERGROUND LONDON RAILWAY bearing which its success or failure, from a financial and than £3,250,000, this to cover construction of the main engineering standpoint may have upon the long talked-of station tunnels and subways, track, rolling stock, power underground rapid transit line in New York. The possi- stations, distributing circuits, elevator plants and all other bility of drawing interesting comparisons between these equipment features. The entire road is to be 6j- miles in two roads in the two cities may be still better understood, length. when it is said that the Central London line bisects the A preliminary description of the Central London Rail-area now served by the Metropolitan (underground) Dis- way has already appeared in the STREET Railway Jour- H2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol,. XIV. No. 3. nal (July, 1897,page 423), and from this a general idea ofthe tunnel construction, the subways and the stations maybe obtained. The map of th

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