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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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-gers, showing that the underground is not only taking the over-head, but the surface companies as well. However, the factshould be remembered that several thousand people now livealong the line of the subway, or near it, that did not live therea year ago. The Interborough Company is now carrying anaverage of 1,250,000 persons daily, compared with about 1,060,-000 a year ago at this time. Traffic figures for the early partof December, so the records show, generally hold good as anaverage until May, which means that the monthly gross earn-ings will show an increase of over $250,000. 46 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. i. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES FOR LONDON & NORTHWESTERNCARS IN LONDON From frequent articles in this paper and from notes in themonthly London Letter, the readers of this journal are un-doubtedly familiar with the fact that the electrification of theMetropolitan District Railway Company, which is a portion ofthe old Underground Railway system of London, has now been
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DISTRICT RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE IN TWO UNITS practically completed. The steam-drawn trains, composed ofcoaches with the usual first, second and third-class compart-ments, have been withdrawn and long, center-aisle cars equip-ped with the multiple-unit system have replaced them. As isalso well known, a portion of the underground railway systemhas long been used also by the trains of the London & North-western Railway Company, one of the British trunk lines.The trains of this company start from the Broad Street sta- should be used to draw the London & Northwestern trainsthrough the tunnel. These locomotives are attached to thetrains at Earls Court station and draw them the remainingportion of their journey from this station to the MansionHouse station. Views of a locomotive unit and of a completetrain of cars are presented herewith. The locomotive bodies and trucks were built by the Amal-gamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, of Birming-ham. The electrical equipment wasfurnis

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