. The Street railway journal . engineer on the steel frame-work. THE NEW CAR TERMINALIn the engraving below is shown the plan of the basement of Ticket Office 4- desiring to return immediately without entering the park, canpass through on to another platform, and from that point enterthe enclosure, where they can board a car for the city or passoutside the grounds. Passengers leaving the park come down the stairs, C, andpass through the turnstiles at H and onto the platform. Thisturnstile prevents people from passing back into the park atthat point. There is a large gate at I, which will be op
. The Street railway journal . engineer on the steel frame-work. THE NEW CAR TERMINALIn the engraving below is shown the plan of the basement of Ticket Office 4- desiring to return immediately without entering the park, canpass through on to another platform, and from that point enterthe enclosure, where they can board a car for the city or passoutside the grounds. Passengers leaving the park come down the stairs, C, andpass through the turnstiles at H and onto the platform. Thisturnstile prevents people from passing back into the park atthat point. There is a large gate at I, which will be openedduring rush hours, an officer being stationed there so that noone can enter the park from there. Having reached this pointvisitors desiring to simply go out onto the street pass out thewalk, G, which is sufficiently wide to prevent any congestionand enables them to reach the street without crossing anytracks. Passengers having the last coupon of their round-triptickets pass directly through the opening, B, depositing their. COMMONWEALTH AVENUE . Street PLAN OF THE NEW CAR TERMINAL AND DEPOT AT NORUMBEGA PARK, SHOWING ARRANGEMENT OF ENTRANCE AND DEPARTURE PLATFORMS the Casino building, at the entrance to the park, upon Com-monwealth Avenue, which is used as a car storage house andalso an entrance and departure depot for the visitors. This hasbeen entirely rearranged and rebuilt for the operation of carsat the terminal, upon an entirely new plan, for facility of hand-ling the large crowds. In previous years it has been found thatthe task of collecting fares upon the cars departing from thepark, with such heavy crowds as have been carried, has beendifficult, and that it was almost impossible to secure the faresof all the passengers. The new plan will provide a means oftaking the fares of all passengers before entrance to the cars,in order that the former errors of registration by conductorsmay be effectually done away with. As may be seen from the plan of the new te
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