Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
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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over it> rails. II N ( - \l imn 1. Brompton >V Piccadilly Circus Railway. _>. Charing Cross, 1 uston >v Hampstead Railway. The lines in operation have served the double purpose of afford-ing ■ great publii luburban t<of opening il London to the great possibilities in economy,in I comfort hi a properly organized electrii in traction amounting t 41 miles ofmule are shown by the map t cover ■ large extent f the ■■■and southwestern suburban district The proposed extensiothe surface lines f..r which authority is now sought coutprimiles of electric tramways and light railway-. Hire 1- aTi examplenf the tangle of tramway legislation. These lines are admittedlyrequired and the assent of the local authorities to build them hasheen obtained, but the County Council in the position of a rivalpromoter has the power, as the other authority, to step in, andby refusing assent, prevent the promoters from presenting the11 its merits d. Parliament In Beveral cases the promoters
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MAP OF LONDONS TUBES AND TRAMS. ,t. City & Brixton Railway. 4. Great Northern & Strand Railway. 5. Xnrlli Wc-t London Railway. The above enumeration give- the following figures: Route miles. In operation 15^ Authorized and under construction 36^ The accompanying map show- all the existing and proposed tram-ways as well as other railway-, etc.. in the district of the LondonUnited system. The following i- a short tabular statement: Miles. Electric tramway- in operation ;6 Electric tramways now under construction 42 Electric tramway extension- proposed 15 Electric tramways as light railway- proposed S/i trie tube railway- proposed 13 Total -M. have concluded agreements where, in consideration of large outlaysfor Street improvements they have secured franchises of 50 and 2$years respectively, with power of purchase, in some cases, as agoing concern. COMBINED SURFACE AND TUNNEL SYSTEM. There is in British tramway practice a difficulty which docs notpresent itself to the American or

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