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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (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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VIEW SHOUING COMPLETED TRACK ON BOULDER ROAD maps. But with the discoveries of rich gold fields in the neigh-borhood its development has been rapid, and it now possesses,with its suburbs, a population of approximately 40,000 inhabi-tants, handsome buildings and a regularly organized municipalsystem. The city itself is inland, and is connected by rail withFremantle, its chief water port, 400 miles to the south. It is needless to say that one of the first necessities of anenterprising place of this kind was a well-equipped and up-to-date electric railway system. To carry out an enterprise of this
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OPENING DAY, CAR ON POINT OF LEAVING FOR BOULDER KING POLE IN COURSE OF ERECTION AT CORNER OF HANNANAND MARITANA STREETS locally being carried out by the Tramway Companys engineer,S. W. Childs. Of Mr. Childs it might be said that he built thePerth (Australia) electric railway system in connection withthe same contractors, and has also had charge of importantelectric railway construction in this country, including that ofthe Toledo & Monroe Electric Railway. The tramways in Kalgoorlie traverse the chief streets of thecity, and extend to Boulder, the principal mining district andsuburb. The cars are at the present time operated on an eight-minute headway. The fares chargedare 3 pence to any point within theKalgoorlie limits, and an additional 3pence to Boulder, with which placethe chief traffic exists. The construction has presented nounusual difficulties except those dueto the carrying out of any extensivework at an extreme distance from thebase of supply. The track construction is

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo211903newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:157
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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