Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (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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pedand will very soon be running. This, of course, is in conjunction practically disliiirl from the linnr ( irrle. wiinii lia» iiol yei heen-opened. The Metropolitan system is used by trains of other lines. Korinstance, some fjreat Western trains run from Paddington to Moor-gatc St, and .Mdgale, and it is intended to draw these trains, whichare, of ciiirse, steam at present, by electric locomotives. GreatNorthern and Midland trains also run on a portion of the Circlelines from Kings Cross, Imt <lo not run on the same track as thatused by the Circle trains, so that they would not interfere in theleast with the electric trains run by cither the Metropolitan or theDistrict Railway. A branch of the Metropolitan Railway runs from.Mdgatc to two separate stations at New Cross, this portion of theline being known as the East London railway, where connection 15made with the main lines of the London, Brighton & South CoastRailway, and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway at their New
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STE.\M Tl-RBINE SETS. METROtKlLIT.VN RY. with the District Railways scheme for electric traction which isnow being carried out, and power for which will be supplied fromthe power plant at Lots Road, Chelsea, which it will be remem-bered is a part of Mr. Yerkes plan, and is being constructed byMr. James R. Chapman. The Metropolitan electric work has been carried out by its ownworkincn under the superintendence of Mr. A. C. Ellis, generalmanager, who has been assisted by Mr. Thomas Parker, the con-sulting electrical engineer, and Mr. C. Jones, chief electrical en-gineer. The permanent way has been under the direction of Mr.E. P. Seaton, the companys engineer, and the construction of roll-ing stock by Mr. A. Ingram, carriage and wagon superintendent. There are two stations at Baker St., one on the Inner Circle,upon which district and Metropolitan trains run, and one the ter-minus of the Baker St., Harrow. Uxbridge and Verney Junc-tion line. There is no physical connection, however, betwe

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