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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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58,068,531 100,076,789 108,906,472 113,015,728 31.985,158 39,321,946 19,051,875 218,166 74,685 41,506 9,001,812 8,596,344 5,247,552 813,825 354,428 41,772,034 63,771,450 82,367,958 101,108,780 109,335,585 113,057,234 centers of Europe. This is clearly shown by Tables II to V,which show the increase in traffic population in London, Ber-lin and Liverpool. The existing methods of rapid transit, asfar as Berlin and London are concerned, are shown in the twomaps accompanying this article, and which have been special-ly prepared for it. The congestion of local traffic services is further increasedby the practice of making short spur or branch lines fromexisting railways to those districts needing further accommo-dation. This method is advantageous from many points ofview, but the result of such a policy is greatly to overcrowdthe approach on the final section to the London terminus. It is undoubtedly a fact that a great deal of the overcrowd- 52^ Street railway journal. (Vol. XXVIL No. 14.
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April 7, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 523 ing which exists in the large cities is due to the want of ade-quate rapid transit facilities and the Royal Commission onLondon Traffic rightly states that: We look for the relief of overcrowding to the future adoptionof electric traction for suburban trains, and to the increase in thenumber of trains run, which would probably follow the change inmotive power. Trains of uniform, but not excessive size, runat very short intervals, afford the best way of meeting the evilof overcrowding. The Royal Commission is greatly impressed by the possi-bilities of electric traction on railways, and clearly states thisview as follows :— So long as trains are hauled by steam engines we do not thinkthat much improvement in the speed of suburban train servicecan be looked for. When electric traction is adopted the ad-vantage of quicker acceleration will be secured, and the readieradaptability of electric trains to all requirements will, we hope,enable suburstreetrailwayjo271906newy

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