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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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two lines connecting them, and how this will bedivided between the two, one road possessing a better THE QU1NCY-H1NGHAM GROUPTo the north of the Brockton-Bridgewater system, and,as before stated, connecting it with the Boston system andthe shore of Massachusetts Bay, is the Quincy-Hinghamsystem, consisting of four important lines, of which twohave been for some years in operation, and the other two,the Braintree and the Braintree & Weymouth, recentlybuilt. The district is almost entirely residential and pleas-uring in character, though Quincy has extensive granitequarries and some manufacturing interests. Hingham,Hull, Nantasket Beach, Downer Landing and Cohassetare popular summer resorts which attract thousands fromBoston and the Brockton district, and special traffic ar-rangements have been made by which through cars arerun from Neponset Bridge over the Quincy and Hinghamroads to Nantasket Beach in competition with steam rail-road lines running by more circuitous routes. Nothing
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local traffic and running at higher speed, but for a con-siderably longer distance. The question as to whetherthe steam railroad traffic will be cut into by such lines asthese is also an important one, and is probably to be an-swered decidedly in the affirmative. Another experimentof this same character is just being made in the openingof a line from Taunton to Providence by practically thesame interests which own the Brockton, Bridgewater &Taunton line. Pleavy cars, high speeds, comparativelyfrequent, and above all regular, time intervals betweentrains can hardly help securing the traffic even at a slightloss of time, but whether in such a section it can be built upto the point of supporting this new mileage and the betterservice to the public is the real question. can be more charming than a ride through this district onthe trolley cars, and such trips are increasingly popularwith the people of Boston and vicinity. These four lines operate about seventy miles of track,and serve

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