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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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CAR HOUSE IN SOLINGEN ELECTRIC RAILWAY PRACTICE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY SIDNEY H. SHORT* Electricity as a motive power for tramways is fast be-coming popular in the British Isles. Had it not been forthe fact that most of the tramway concessions in GreatBritain were made under the tramways act of 1870, run-ning for twenty-one years, electric tramways would to-daybe pretty general throughout England. In all of the con-cessions granted under this act there was a provision that over the tramway systems and are fast converting dieminto electric lines. Some of the lines have already beenequipped and are in operation. The city and town cor-poration authorities are making every effort to give totheir constituents the best possible transportation facili-ties, and are thoroughly alive to the advantages of electrictraction. Municipal ownership of the tramways is rhere-
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INTERIOR OF PRESENT POWER STATION, GLASGOW CORPORATION TRAMWAYS at the expiration of the grant the municipal corporationscould, if they so desired, take over the tramways. Asthese concessions have only recently expired, most of thecorporations, of which Glasgow is an example, are taking *I wish to thank the following gentlemen for the information, photos,drawings, etc., which they have so kindly furnished to be incorporated in thisarticle: C. Challenger, traffic manager, Bristol. Arthur Ellis, M. I. E. E., borough electrical engineer, Bolton. Alfred H. Gibbings, city electrical engineer, Bradford. A. B. Holmes, M. I. C. E.; city electrical engineer, Liverpool. R. E. Quin, electrical engineer, Blackpool. Henry E. Stilgoe, borough engineer, Dover. John Young, general manager, Glasgow. fore the rule in large cities like London, Glasgow andLiverpool, and these cities are being followed by thesmaller towns, although there are many that have recentlygranted franchises to private corporation

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