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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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ed Car *c!39 Vanity and Street Car Signs c201 Yerkes, Frank T.—Comments on the Electri-cal Equipment of the New York Cen-tral Tunnel cl06 Ziffer. E. A.—Municipalization of the Vienna Electric Street Railways 362 Street Railway Journal Vol. XIX. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, JANUARY 4, 1902 No. 1. THE STREET RAILWAY COMPANY OF HAMBURG, GERMANY 0- JAN 7 1902 s) BY HEINRICH VELLGUTH As has been the case with the majority of street railways,the extensive system of the Hamburg Street Railway Com-pany is the result of evolution from a very small beginning.The growth has been due not only to the extension of thecompanys own lines, but also the absorption of a numberof competitive roads. The original horse car line of Ham- time past electricity has been the motive power on this In 1881 the Strassen-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, the subjectof this article, and which had been incorporated a shorttime previously, was consolidated with the Pferde-Eisen-bahn-Gesellschaft. In 1884 an English syndicate formed
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VIEW OF THE ELBE RIVER AT HAMBURG burg was owned by the Pferde-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft,which was founded in 1864, and its first line was put inoperation on Aug. 16, 1866. This road was in a prosperouscondition up to 1877, which may be accounted for by thehigh fares which it was the practice at that time to collect.In 1877, on account of the increased traffic density, themain line was changed over to steam, which step proved asuccess from an engineering as well as financial standpoint. In 1870 the Hamburg-Altonaer Pferdebahn (the presentHamburg-Altonaer Centralbahn-Gesellschaft) was found-ed. This company, even up to the present time, is an inde-pendent company, and will probably remain so for a longtime, because the companys financial and other conditionsare not conducive to fusion with other roads. For some the Hamburg-Altona-North-Western Tramway Company,Limited, which was. later called the Hamburg-AltonaerTrambabn-Gesellschaft. In 1886 the Strassen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, at the re-streetrailwayjo191902newy

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