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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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aratus for controlling the train; andnear this is a baggage compartment, the remainder of the carbeing devoted to passengers. Most of the seats are cross-seats,and seat three on one side of the passage and two on the other,but at the ends longitudinal, to allow more room for passengersentering or leaving the cars. The seats are all covered withrattan, and are of the Hale & Kilburn walk-over type, suppliedby G. D. Peters & Company. The interior of the cars is fittedwith oak, giving a very light appearance. 174 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII.. No. 5. The trailers or first-class cars have seats arranged after thesame design, but only two on each side of the passage; they areupholstered in epingle, the interior decoration being mahog-any, with light wood panelling, and the roof covered withmillboard. A four-car train will carry 270 passengers, thethird class seating sixty-nine and the first class sixty-six people. Perhaps it is well to mention that in order to run a satisfac-
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TRAIN OF ELECTRIC CARS ON LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY tory suburban service it is necessary that the delay at stationsshould be reduced to the smallest possible amount, and this willentail alterations in the method of dealing with baggage, as itis not to be expected that the electric trains can carry heavyluggage. Notice boards will be hung on the platforms showingpassengers where to stand to await their class, and in order toensure quick loading and unloading of passengers, strict regu-lations will be made that every passenger is to enter the car-riages at the end door and leave by the front door, thus ensur-ing a continuous circulation. In view of the alarm caused within recent months by fireson electric trains, it will be interesting to note that the com-pany have taken all possible precaution against any suchoccurrence. The motor compartments have, with the exceptionof the roof, which is covered with sheet-steel plates, been linedwith uralite, a well-known fireproof materia

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