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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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of Station Steam Generators Notes Engines and Ac- cumulators 2,IOO 4,400 In operation 9.5O0 9,200 Spandauerstrasse-Rathausstrasse. II,6oO IO,8oo 11 Schiffbauerdamm-Luisenstrasse 16,600 12,700 20,000 13,000 In course of 3o,oco 20,000 erection 14,000 9,000 In operation < * 24,000 l6,O00 In course of erection 127,8lo 95,100 trie cars traveled 55,602,000 car kilometers and the horsecars 10,060,000 car kilometers. The motor cars traveled43,251,000 car kilometers and the trailers 12,351,000 carkilometers. A total of 282,800,000 persons were trans-ported by these cars. All of these figures refer only to theGrosse Berliner Strassenbahn proper and do not include itscontrolled roads, The average consumption per motor car June 7, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 685 kilometer was 769 watt-hours. It cost 318,000 marks to The Berlin Electrical Works, which supplies the currentmaintain the accumulators in the cars, but, fortunately, bat- for the operation of the cars, is the largest on the conti-
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SCHONEBERG CAR HOUSE, BERLIN tery cars have now been prohibited within city limits, alllines being changed to trolley or conduit. At the close of 1901 the company had 7546 employees,who received 7,475,000 marks in wages during the year. The passenger receipts for 1901 amountedto M 26,540,000, M 2,460,000 being for timecards; 240,885,000 persons paid 10 pfennigfares, and 41,910,000 traveled on time tickets,so that these latter tickets brought only about6 pfennigs per passenger. For each kilometerof track, 1624 persons were transported daily;for each car kilometer, 4.31 persons, and foreach crip, thirty-eight persons. There is a pension fund for the employees,into which the latter paid 278,000 marks dur-ing 1901 and the company the same amount. nent. Its history is so typical of the formation and growthof many European electrical stations that the writer deemsit proper to give a brief description of this large plant. Itwas established in 1883, after Edison, at Paris in 1881, had KALEVIM

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