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Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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;.,no Slrn-( Ry..luiiriril V MAP OF MILAN-GALLARATE-PORTO CERESIO RAILWAY The company, .Strada Ferrata del Mediterraneo, whichoperates the railway lines in the western half of the Italianpeninsula, realized some time ago that radical measureswould have to be adopted to meet the ever-increasing pas-senger traffic on the line connecting Milan, Gallarate, Var-ese and Porto Ceresio. This road is the main outlet fromMilan to the most important industrial district of Northern
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August 3, 1901.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 139 PORTO CERESIOBisuschio-Viggit^Arcisatt-Brenno.InJiino-01oDa„_.VARESE Italy, and the densely populated lake district around LakeMaggiore and Lake Lugano, a line demanding a frequentand rapid service, especially throughout the summermonths. It was mainly due to the initiative of Commend-atore Guiseppe Oliva, the director general of this company,that the adoption of electric traction on this line was de-cided upon, and after due consideration, the governmentand railway authorities approved and indorsed the projectof a rotary-converter sub-station and third-rail systemworked out and presented by the Compagnie dElectriciteThomson-Houston de la Medi-terranee, a company affiliatedwith the General Electric Com-pany, of this country. Thisscheme did not include the con-struction of a central station, asit was planned to buy the neces-sary power from an hydraulicplant, which was to be installedby a private company. Sincethen, the railway company itse

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:153
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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