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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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re to come on account of the abundance of water power still undeveloped and the increasing difficulty of securing coal.High-speed transit in the large cities is of no less impor-tance, and there is still a field for interurban and suburban railways. In Tokyo, for instance, high-speed transit is an acute necessity, and a project is now under con-sideration for the construction of an elevated and subway system. High-speed electric railway operation betweenTokyo and Osaka, a distance of 356 miles by the present steam route, is contemplated, and application has been made to the government for permission to put this proj-ect through. July 5, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 7 The Zone Fare in Practice LEEDS, PART I A City that Has Grown Rapidly without Any Apartment House Development—Efforts Have Been Madeto Cultivate Off-Peak Traffic—Trackless Trolley and Bus Service Also Conducted but only as feeders to the Trolley System—Comparative Bus and Trolley Statistics Are Presented By WALTER JACKSON
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BOAR LANE IN THE SHOPPING DISTRICT OF LEEDS. LEEDS is the great clothing center of England,located 185 miles north of London and exactly halfway to Edinburgh. In addition to the clothing industry, which is predominant, Leeds possesses great engineering works, a big leather trade and an unusual diversity of other manufactures. Coal mines and quarries are also in the immediate vicinity. In general, the best residential district is on high ground in the north, while the manufacturing district is in the river valleyto the south and southwest. Since the rise of the manufacturing era, Leeds has grown apace, as is clear from the accompanying table of population and ratable value: Population 181 1 .. 62,534 1891 1861 207,149 1911 1871 259,212 1917 Ratable Value 1861 £504,885 1891 1871 759,896 1901 1881 1,125,852 1917 * Enlarged city of 21,593 acres. 309,119417,051*459,260 £1,279,2131,741,3732,258,486 Leeds is also in close touch with a number of smaller cities and towns which reported the foll

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