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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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enyears ago, made, for a long time, but little progress, as the private companies, but also, in many cases, by electricalmanufacturing concerns, as well as financial institutions.In addition, the municipalities have recently interestedthemselves to a considerable extent in the construction ofnew, and re-equipment of old lines. This has been the case in Vienna, Prague, Lemberg,Brunn, Czernowitz and Olnmetz. These munici-palities either manage the systems themselves or leasethem, as is the case in Vienna, to private companies. Theinitial ownership of all franchises, however, is vested in theState, to whom all applications have to be made. Byauthority of a statute passed Dec. 31, 1894, the State au-thorities may grant concessions to either municipalities,for roads within their jurisdiction, or to private individualsor corporations. The life of the former is limited to ninetyyears and the latter to sixty years, but the State has theright to resign the right of ownership in case of munici-
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TYPICAL PASSENGER STATION ON THE GUNTRAMSDORF-BADEN ELECTRIC RAILWAY (VIENNA LOCAL RAILWAY authorities in the various towns resolutely opposed theinstallation of the trolley system. While the argumentsadvanced for this course were in some cases valid, purebusiness reasons and policy made them partial towardother systems at various times. It has been only duringthe last few years that expert opinion in this empire hasleaned manifestly toward the introduction of the over-head system, which has shown marked advantages over allothers in efficiency, reliability and low first cost. Thefears expressed of this system in its early days have notbeen realized, so that now companies operating with ani-mal power in Vienna, Buda-Pest, Prague, Graz, Briinnand Trieste have decided on the substitution of the trolley.The permission of the authorities has been secured, por-tions of the lines in these cities are already partiallyequipped and the rest is now in course of construction.In Austria the electr

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