Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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he Milan-Porto Ceresio line and the Valte-lina line are instances of roads of this kind, AUTOMATIC BLOW-OUT, VALTELINA RAILWAY The views which accompany this article show one of themotor cars on the Valtelina Railway, and one of the automaticblow-outs used on the high-tension circuits, also one of thestorage battery cars on the converted Milan-Monza line, anda typical view near Melito on the N-aples system. TABLE SHOWING LENGTH OF PRINCIPAL Operating LengthCITY TRAMWAYS IN ITALY ^ Urban. Suburban Sucieta Romana di Tramways, Rome 40 — Tramways Neapoletani, Naples — 43 Tramways Provinciali di Napoli, Naples — 32 Societa di Tramways di Livorno, Livorno 6 7 Societa Torinese di Tramvie, Turin 53 145 Societa Anomina Elettricita Alta Italia, Turin.. . 4 13 Societa Edison di Milano, Milan 98 25 Tramways Fiorentini, Firenze 3 108 Societa Tramways Elettrici, Palermo 41 — Tramvie Varesine, Varese 6 — Unione Italiana Trams Elettrici, Genoa 61 24 312 397 Total, 709 km of street railways.
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VIEW NEAR MELITO, NAPLES ELECTRIC RAILWAY 358 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXL No. lo. DENMARK The only city in this small country which contains electricrailways, worthy of mention, is the capital, Copenhagen. Thiscity has 450,000 inhabitants, and the street railways are oper-ated by two companies, one owning 90 km and the other 20km of track. The companies are under very strict munici-pal regulations, and in their franchises are obliged to guaranteecertain wages and hours of labor to their employees. Thelatter are paid from 90 kronen to 135 kronen per month, andare guaranteed a pension after twenty-five years service, orprevious to this time if incapacitated. The hours of labor perday are eleven and every sixth day is a holiday. The city re-ceives 5 per cent of the gross receipts of the road and also HOLLAND Mainly on account of its limited industrial developmentHolland has but few electric railways, a condition which willprobably not be materially altered for some time to come. Th

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