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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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CENTRAL I.ONIKJN KAliAVAY ; II FT. 0 IX. ILNNEl. AND .-111 1.1,1,>. fares could no longer be made use of, even if the traffic using themcould be maintained uninterruptedly. If constructed through pri-vate property, the enormous cost of its acquisition made it almost im-possible to hope for an adequate return to the investor. In the caseof an authorised line between Euston and Charing Cross, althougha substantial guarantee was given by the companies interested, thepublic would not come forw^ard with the cash. Furthermore, on ac-count of the use of steam locomotives and the consequent difficultiesof ventilation, the roads became very unpopular. In the meantime the ever-increasing traffic in the streets of themetropolis, brought about both by the rapid extension in all direc- 944 THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS OF LONDON.
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CENTRAL LONDON RAILWAY ; 21 FOOT TUNNEL AND SlliLi.I*. tions of the residential districts, as well as by the great improvementin the facilities for travel afforded by the omnibus companies, thepassengers by which have increased about four fold in the last thirtyyears, called urgently for fresh means of relief from congestion. This has been attempted with encouraging success by the construc-tion of deep-level tul)ular railways, constructed, as a rule, beneathmain thoroughfares without interference with their surface or with thehouses at the sides. These being worked by electricity, the difficul-ties attending efficient ventilation have been easily disposed of. The pioneer in this system of construction and working was theCity and South London Railway, which, authorised in 1884, was com-pleted and opened at the end of 1890. This railway is 3 miles i furlong in length. Commencing atKing William street, near the Monument, it passes under Arthurstreet W^est and Swan lane to the river Thame

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