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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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THE OLD SHIP MEETING HOUSE, HINGHAM dends, the Xatick & Cochituate 6 per cent, the South Mid-dlesex 5.5 per cent, and the Framingham Union nothing.The joint balance sheet surplus of the five properties was$i7.723- THE NORFOLK SUBURBAN GROUP Southwest of the Boston system and connected with itat Forest Hills lie three lines, two of which are for a largepart of their length in Boston proper. Altogether theyserve nineteen towns and villages in Norfolk and Suffolkcounties, having a total population of 60,000, equivalentto 2300 inhabitants for each of the twenty-six miles oftrack built. This is beautiful suburban territory, de-pendent exclusively upon Boston, and its population isgrowing more rapidly perhaps than in any other sectionaround Boston. There is a large amount of both regularand pleasure travel, and the local traffic between so main
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THE CRAIG1E MANSION, CAMBRIDGE The density of traffic and earning power of the three sys-tems as so far developed is as follows: Gross Receipts Per Mile Per Car Track. Mile. Norfolk Suburban $8,945 $-2356 West Roxbury & Roslindale 5,904 .1784 Norfolk Central 3,639 .1396 These are large earnings compared with any (exceptLynn & Boston) so far investigated in suburban Boston,and show how important the regular daily business travelis to the prosperity of such roads. There is one element of competition which may pos-sibly enter into the question of the permanent prosperityof these properties in the near future, and that is the pro-posed equipment, by the New York, New Haven & Hart-ford Railroad Company, of its Dedham Circuit Line, which 486 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 9. will run from the new Southern Union Station in Bostonto Forest Hills and thence via Roslindale, West Roxbury,Dedham, Readville, Hyde Park and Forest Hills back tothe Union Station. It is probable th

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