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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e valley which arc not in the immediate vicinityof the steam road stations the advantages of the electric line arcsufficient to more than offset the faster running time of the steamtrains. These advantages arc of course largely due to the factthat the Western Massachusetts cars will stop to discharge orreceive passengers at any point along the route, which obviatesthe necessity of walking or hiring a carriage to traverse the longdistance often found between the steam roads stations and onesobjective point. Referring to the map, it will be seen that the new line to Hunt-ington provides a convenient and easily accessible route fromthe popular centers of Springfield, Chicopec, Northampton andHolyoke to the Berkshires, and in connection with the through lineI etween Hartford and Springfield brings the Berkshires almost tothe doors of Connecticut Valley residents. An important feature of the companys work in the near futurewill be the carrying of freight and express matter. It is. expected
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KOADliED AMONG THE UILLS, WESTERN MASSACHUSEIli illLEEr RY. mainly of a through character and consequently infrequent stopsare made at the local stations. Between Westfield and Hunting-ton there arc five daily trains in each direction on the Boston &Albany R. R. as compared with 15 through cars per day betweenthe same points on the Western Massachusetts Street Ry. Thefirst through electric car for Huntington leaves Westfield at 5:50a. m., compared with 8:35 a. m. on the competing steam road, andthe firs^t car of the electric line leaves Huntington for Westfieldat 7:0s a. ni. against 8:11 a. m. on the Boston & Albany R. R.Between 7 a. m. and 10 p. m. the interval between electric carsgoing up the valley from Westfield is at no time greater than onehour; on the steam line during this time the maximum internalis 3 hrs. 58 min. On Sundays there are 14 electric cars in eachdirection between Westfield and Huntington against four east-bound and two west-bound Boston & Albany trai

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