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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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construc-tion of conduits up to now. The Cie. Generale Parisienne de Tramways was given a work both from its extent, 10.5 km. (6.5 miles) of doubletrack, and from the character of the territory through which it passes. Some features of the conduit construction differ quiteradically from anything yet done, and they may be of in-terest to the readers of the Street Railway Journal. The conduits built by the French Thomson-HoustonCompany (and this is the only company which up to thistime has constructed conduits for electric roads in France)have all been with the center slot. The type of construc-tion in the main resembles that of the Metropolitan Rail-road Company, of Washington, the important differencebeing that the cast iron insulator shields are bolted di-rectly to the bottom flange of the slot rail, and the insula-tor pits are covered with a cast iron plate, this being lowenough to allow its being paved over. This avoided theuse of manholes in the street in any quantity, the munici-
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Street Radujuy Journal MAP OF PARIS, SHOWING LOCATION OF NEW ELECTRIC CONDUIT LINE new concession of a line called St. Ouen-Champ deMars, which will run from the Porte dAsnieres to theEcole Militaire, within the city limits of Paris. The con-cession being explicit that the system in Paris must be oneof underground electrical conductors the company de-cided to equip this section of the line with conduits. Theauthorities also accorded the company the privilege ofextending the conduits to the companys depot beyond theCare Montparnasse. Lately the company decided to ex-tend the conduit to the Place de la Bastille. The relationof this line to the rest of the system can be seen by refer-ence to the map. The conduit so prolonged will serve for three lines, viz.,the St. Ouen-Champ de Mars, from the Porte dAsnieresto the Ecole Militaire; the line from the Place de lEtoileto the Gare Montparnasse, and the line from the last pointto the Place de la Bastille. The two latter are at presentimportan

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