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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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3 5 Height, rail to top of drawbar 2 10 REPORT ON EUROPEAN RUSH-HOUR CONDITIONS The consular report for Tuesday, Jan. 10, issued by theBureau of Manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor,gives particulars of the methods adopted in Liverpool, Bir-mingham, Manchester, Leeds, Belfast, Marseilles, Brussels,Berlin and Moscow for reducing or preventing the over-crowding of cars during the rush hours. Most of the citiesmentioned limit the number of passengers who are allowed tostand in the cars or on the platforms. In Leeds, Belfast andMoscow this limit is eight persons. In Berlin the usual num-ber is seven, but under certain conditions a larger number ispermitted, such as during sudden showers, snowstorms, onSundays and holidays after 3 p. m., etc. The number of pas-sengers allowed to stand in the other cities mentioned in thereport is not given. Where the number is limited in this waypassengers form in a line, called in England a queue, andawait their turn to be admitted on the cars.
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Illinois Traction System New Motor Car, the Greater Portion of Which Is Reserved for Baggage 2/6 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXVII. No. 6. News of Electric Railways Plans for Electrifying the Revere Beach & Lynn Road At the hearing held before the joint committee onrailroads of the Legislature of Massachusetts on the appli-cation of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroadfor permission to take over the Revere Beach & Lynn Rail-road T. E. Byrnes, vice-president of the New York, NewHaven & Hartford Railroad, said: The New York, NewHaven & Hartford Railroad proposes to build and equip adouble-track tunnel under Boston harbor, connecting theeastern branch of the Boston & Maine and the RevereBeach road with the South Station, using a lower level ofthe South Station for station, to connect with the main linetracks of the New Haven at a point between the tracks ofthe South Terminal Company and the Back Bay station.It is proposed to equip and operate by electr

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