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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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ortion of its route toKings Cross, and thence to Russell Square along the new street.of the London County Council fiom Holborn to a terminus inthe Strand. In the present session powers are asked for the construction ofan extension from the Strand to the Temple station of the Dis-trict Railway. Stations are proposed at Earls Court, South Ken-sington, the Oratory, Knights Bridge, Hyde Park Corner, Pic-cadilly Circus, Cranbourn Street and Holborn (where it joins theGreat Northern & Strand Railway), Kings Cross, York Road,Holloway Road and Finsbury Park. The Great Northern & Strand Railway will establish communi-cation between Earls Court and Finsbury Park, and may be re-garded as an extension of the Great Northern Railway to theWest End, so far as its local passenger traffic is concerned, andas it overlaps that line between Kings Cross and Finsbury Parkit should secure a considerable share of the 30,000 passengers whouse Kings Cross station daily, and the connection with the Dis-
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Snest Ry. Journal The system of railways shown on this map has transfer stations with the main lines of railway at the following named places: London & North-western Railway, at Euston and Earls Court; Great Western Railway, at Paddington, Praed Street and Sudbury Hill; Midland Railway, at KingsCross, Kentish Town and Ealing; Southeastern & London Chatham & Dover Railway, at Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Victoria, St. Pauls and New Cross;London & Southwestern Railway, at Waterloo, Richmond and Wimbledon; Great Central Railway, at Marylebone and Sudbury Hill: Great Eastern Railway,at Liverpool Street; Great Northern Railway, at Kings Cross and Finsbury Park; London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, at Victoria and New Cross;London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, at Bow. MAP OF THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANYS LINES We have referred to these railways frequently in the last fewyears. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway is perhaps thebest known, about half

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