. Electric railway journal . es, is to be made in twenty minutes, including onlyfour intermediate stops, as opposed to twenty-threeminutes required by the subway express trains andsaving about ten minutes over the local schedule on theelevated lines. The Second Avenue trains will be runacross a new double-deck bridge over the HarlemRiver to serve the elevated lines in the Bronx whichheretofore were utilized only for Third Avenue trains. The work, which was undertaken just two years ago,has added about 15 miles of new track to the elevatedrailway system, and about 9 miles of the old track haveb
. Electric railway journal . es, is to be made in twenty minutes, including onlyfour intermediate stops, as opposed to twenty-threeminutes required by the subway express trains andsaving about ten minutes over the local schedule on theelevated lines. The Second Avenue trains will be runacross a new double-deck bridge over the HarlemRiver to serve the elevated lines in the Bronx whichheretofore were utilized only for Third Avenue trains. The work, which was undertaken just two years ago,has added about 15 miles of new track to the elevatedrailway system, and about 9 miles of the old track havebeen rebuilt. A number of engineering problems ofunusual difficulty have been solved in the construction,a double-deck terminal station with four tracks hav-ing been provided at the City Hall, and a two-levelstation with seven tracks having been constructed atChatham Square, the point where the City Hall andSouth Ferry trains separate for the southbound trafficand where northbound Second Avenue and ThirdAvenue trains MANHATTAN ELEVATED THIRD TRACKING—TYPICAL EXPRESSSTATION ON HUMP, LOCAL STATION BELOW
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