The Street railway journal (1896) (14574873348)

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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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allowing thetramway company to build an electric line, may make acondition that current should be taken from the lightingstation. It is a significant fact that last December, during theheaviest lighting season, more current was given out for thestreet cars than was used for the lights. Hamburg has the largest electric street railway inEurope to-day. This sunnner will see abovtt 320 electriccars in operation and all the horses and one steam linereplaced by electricity as far as the lines of the princi-pal company are concerned, although there is one companywhich still has something to do in changing over its lines. Berlin sent its engineers all over Europe on severalvisits to .see everything that had been done up to date.They had an accumulator line which did not give satisfactionor in fact cause any especial notice and was shortlyaband(med. They had done nothing about traction untilthey suddenly came to face the problem of transporting the 398 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 7.
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JUI<Y, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 399 crowds to the National Exposition now in progress. Threelong lines were then fitted out connecting different parts ofthe city with the Exposition. The interesting featureabout these lines is that they contain about two miles ofunderground conduit. This they call in Germany themixed system. They run in the broadest streets ofthe city where the streets are comparatively free with thetrolley line, and when they come into the crowded, thickpart of the city, the conduit is used. The conduit issimilar to that used here on the L,enox Avenue line in NewYork, and in Washington, except that the yokes aresmaller. The conduit is under one rail as it is in Buda-Pesth. The Berlin lines, which the Union ElektricitatsGesellschaft has built, have plows on their cars which canbe inserted into the conduit or taken out by an ordinaryhand lever, operated by the motorman. This makes thesystem very flexible and the change from the trolley to the