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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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had increased inthe past year 43 per cent above erty of the Crown, and the other fourteen, with about 8 percent of the total mileage, are the property of towns orgroups of several communes, as, for instance, in Diissel-dorf, Barmen, Elberfeld, and a number of towns in thatbusy district, PTankfort-on-the-Main, and Konigsberg.Even in the few cases where towns own the property thereis a tendency to let out the operation to private contractorsfor a long term of years. In Munich the city participatesin the ownership of the road, but it is operated entirely bythe company. The Munich Company, with M.6,000,000shares and bond capital, built and owns and operates thehorse lines; but instead of lengthening its concession,which runs only till 1907, the city made an arrangementby which it acts as a silent partner with the company. Thecompany thereupon introduced electric traction with thecitys money on the following basis: The city guaranteesthe company M.930,000 per annum to cover interest on its
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SCENES ON ELECTRIC SUBURBAN RAILWAY, SOLINGEN the previous year, and the number of motor cars 41^ percent. As to the more important cities to-day very completeand extensive electric lines exist in Aix-la-Chapelle (Bruns-wick), Chemnitz, Dresden, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig,Munich, Stuttgart; while Breslau, Kassel, Frankfort,Cologne, Magdeburg, Konigsberg and Diisseldorf arebuilding, or about to begin. Berlin was late in adoptingelectric traction, but has been rapidly making up for losttime, having about 550 motor cars in operation at the pres-ent date. The Hamburg lines, which were started up in1894, represent about the best electric road to be seen inGermany in the way of an extensive network well equippedand splendidly managed. There are long lines of interurban roads in operationand under construction in the more important industrialdistricts of Silesia and the Rhine. There are sixteen roads,with about 10 per cent of the total mileage, which are notin the hands of private capital. Tw

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