Identifier: electricrailway541919newy (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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to 3 miles long) to concerned, that form of operation cost about 2d. permile more than the trackless trolley. It was justifiedchiefly in localities where the permanence of develop-ment was uncertain or where the business fluctuatedbecause of market days, holidays, outings, etc. Quite recently Mr. Hamilton was one of a board ofthree engineers which carefully considered whether itwould be preferable to use motor buses at Edinburghor to electrify the cable system. The decision, as notedin the article on Edinburgh, in the Electric RailwayJournal of May 3, 1919, was to electrify, a few busesbeing used only until such time as certain extensions \i END OF TRAMWAYCU/SELEy ADEL CUM ECCUP A LWOODLEY Leeds trolley system /f auxiliary seri^icesOutside connecting lineseither trolley ordus
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• = 6d Where only one emtlemis s/iown i/ie distance ismeasured /rom the centerof the city. DRICHLlNCrON Ml DDL ETON • • , ROTHWElL ROUTING OF LEEDS TRAMWAY SYSTBM AND LOCATION OF STAGE POINTS Shadwell. This has no fixed headway, the bus makingeight round trips between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. to suitthe convenience of its patrons, the country cottagers.For the week ended Feb. 8, 1919, the bus carried 1248passengers. The number of bus-miles run was 272, andthe intake per bus-mile, 9.65d. In discussing the reasons for the installation of theseservices, Mr. Hamilton said that he regarded the track-less trolley simply as a means, where good roads wereavailable, of putting down a tramway on the installmentplan. Tracks would be justified when the density ofpopulation reached say 5000 per mile or route, or toput it another way, when the traffic warranted a head-way of at least ten minutes. As far as the bus was could be built. Mr. Hamiltons argumentsject were expressed fully in a paper cse

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