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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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ssex white bricks,with facings of brown Portland stone. The ground flooris for the traffic department and stores, and the upper floorfor drawing offices, etc., in connection with the engineeringdepartment. THE TRAMWAY SYSTEM Six and a half route miles have been constructed, or January 4, 1902.J STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 17 eleven and a half miles of tramway as single line. Thereare five routes, viz., Lewes Road, New England Road, ElmGrove, Queens Park Road, Beaconsfield Road and Ditch-ling Road, the latter being worked as a circular route. Lewes Road will have a five-minute service of cars, andthe other routes a seven and a half minute service, but,the Beaconsfield Road and Ditchling Road routes beingworked as a circular route, will, in effect, give a three andthree-quarter minute service at the extreme ends, as it ispossible to reach the same point traveling in either direc-tion. Thirty cars have been provided for the service. Theterminus, or starting point, common to all routes, is in
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GENERATING SET FOR BRIGHTON CORPORATION TRAMWAYS Church Street, at the northernend of the Royal PavilionGardens. .Further powers are being sought in the ensuing Parlia-mentary session for extensions, and the terminus will thenbe made at the southern end of the Old Steine enclosures,and in close proximity to the New Palace Pier and WinterGardens. A further extension is to be carried along theLondon Road, which will connect the existing lines be-tween the junction at New England Road and the southernend of St. Peters Church, enabling the cars on the NewEngland ivoad, as well as the Beaconsfield Road andDitchling Road lines to be operated on the more directroute along the London Road to the sea front. The engineer and manager, Thomas B. Holliday, has alarge and varied tramway experience, extending over aperiod of twenty years, embracing horse, cable and electrictraction in Melbourne, Australia, Bristol, Dublin, Stocktonand Middlesborough and London, and acted as consult-ing engineer to t

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