Identifier: electricrailway551920newy (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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an cities where a universal 5-cent fare hasprevailed for so many years. It is true that tens ofthousands of London houses ought to be destroyed andreplaced by sanitary and more comfortable dwellings,but few people place the blame for this condition on thecost of transportation. Despite the great augmentation of traffic hereinafterdetailed, the operating and schedule speeds have re-mained at the high level of pre-war days. The oldestsystem, the City & South London Railway, is the slow- Mansion House and 29.98 m.p.h. over the entire system.The following particulars on operations and fares aredue largely to the courtesy of the late W. E. Blake,superintendent of the Line Underground Railways, whodied not long ago from blood poisoning resulting from aslight accident on the line. The ideal headway which the company tries to main-tain for the greater part of the day is two and one-halfminutes. Such an interval assures the encouragementof underground travel for much shorter distances than
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CITY AND SUBURBAN DWELLINGS OF LONDON est, with a schedule of 13.65 m.p.h., then follow theBakerloo with 16.32, the Central London with 16.90,the Piccadilly with 17.20 when all stops are made and19.0.5 during rush when alternate trains stop at alter-nate stations fskip stop!), the Hampstead with 17.36, andfinally the District Railway which averages 17.61 m.p.h.on the main-line section between South Kensington and would be the case with longer trains at longer intervals.To put the rtatter another way, the company is moreanxious to secure passengers than economize on motor-men. Table I on page 278 shows that the maximumrush service is forty-three trains (272 cars) an houron the District Railway. It will be seen from this table that the normal unit 278 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 6 TABLE I—SCHEDULED TRAIN SERVICE GIVEN ON THE DIFFERENT LINES AT RUSH AND NON-RUSH PERIODS, JULY, 1919 Through ServiceNo. of Trains No. per of Hour CarsDistrict: Circle 10 44* Wimbledon 8 62 Putney

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