Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ration Tramways has compulsorypowers to install rosettes, paying the owner of thebuilding a nominal fee of Is. per annum. In accord-ance with general British practice, offset trolley wire iscommon in order to avoid long brackets in double-trackside-pole construction. The map clearly indicates the routing scheme, namely,through routes both east-west and north-south. Themain line, Oxford Road to Wokingham Road, 3.4 mileslong, serves both residential and working-class districts,with a standard headway of five minutes with extrasduring the morning, noon and evening rush hours. Atthe old rate of fare it carried 4,192,195 Id. passengersand 60,550 2d. passengers during the six months endedSept. 30, 1918—a substantial rate of increase over thefiscal twelve months ended March 31, 1918, when 6,609,-949 Id. and 77,898 2d. passengers were carried. Since May, 1918, fuel-saving considerations caused arevision of the triangular through line Erleigh Road- June 28, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 1259
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ROUTE MAP OF READING, WITH LOCATIONS OP PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES AND NUMBER OF EMPLOY KKS Caversham-Whitley, which had a flat seven and a halfminute service over 6.39 miles of route and carried3,826,240 Id. passengers and 19,650 2d. passengers dur-ing the fiscal year ended March 31, 1918. The trianglehas been replaced by two through routes—Erleigh Roadto Bath Road via Broad Street, 2.19 miles long, andWhitley Street to Caversham Road, 1.67 miles long.This change eliminated the doubling back on the 1.55mile leg between Erleigh Road terminus and the junc-tion of West and Broad Streets. It is not possible to make a direct comparison show-ing the way traffic was affected by the foregoing re-routing, but the figures may be of interest in showingthe density of travel. Thus the Erleigh-Bath line, 2.18miles long, with a residential patronage and a flat ten-minute service, carried 787,883 Id. passengers and22,840 2d. passengers during the five months, from May1 to Sept. 30, 1918. The Caversham-W

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