. The Street railway journal . omparatively small municipalities which operatetheir own systems of tramways in their own cities. This rela-tionship includes the right to run through cars over the munici-pal railway tracks, and the importance of this feature, as affect-ing the status of electric -transportation in Great Britain, can-not be too strongly emphasized. If arrangements of this kindhad not been made the South Lancashire system would have hadto have a terminus at Knotty Ash, on the outskirts of Liverpool,instead of being able, as is now the case, to run cars rightthrough the city of Li
. The Street railway journal . omparatively small municipalities which operatetheir own systems of tramways in their own cities. This rela-tionship includes the right to run through cars over the munici-pal railway tracks, and the importance of this feature, as affect-ing the status of electric -transportation in Great Britain, can-not be too strongly emphasized. If arrangements of this kindhad not been made the South Lancashire system would have hadto have a terminus at Knotty Ash, on the outskirts of Liverpool,instead of being able, as is now the case, to run cars rightthrough the city of Liverpool down to the pier head on thebanks of the River Mersey and at the very center of the cityof Liverpool. These negotiations were not completed withouta certain amount of trouble. That they have been completedis mainly due to Mr. Atherton, the president of the South 260 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 8. Lancashire Tramways Company, and to C. R. Bellamy, thepopular general manager of the Liverpool Corporation Tram-. ONE OF THE FIRST CARS ENTERING BOLTON ways, whose agreement provides not only that the South Lan-cashire cars will run over the Liverpool system but also thatthe Liverpool Corporation cars are to be allowed to continuetheir journey over the entiresystem of the South Lanca-shire system. This is, per-haps, not the first arrange-ment of the kind in GreatBritain, but at the presentmoment, when other privatecompanies are hammeringloudly at the doors of cor-porations with a demand tobe let into the city, it is partic-ularly interesting and canheartily be recommended. Theplan adopted is not compli-cated, and is similar to thatusually followed in Americaunder similar a South Lancashirecar comes to the boundarythe motorman and conductorof the South Lancashire carstep off and those of the Liver-pool Corporation take charge,collecting their own when a LiverpoolCorporation car comes ontothe South Lancashire systemat Knotty Ash the Sou
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