. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AT C. LOOKING SOUTH Streel vided in the contract drawings that the passenger plat-forms of the stations should be at the level of the would enable every portion of the edge of the plat-form, whether straight or curved, to be used by the carsin receiving and discharging passengers. At a later time,after a conference with railway officials, it was decided. FIG. 1.—PLAN OF BOYLSTON STREET STATION evident to the people of Boston if the new plan is to meetwith favor. PLATFORMS AND STATIONS A great many studies of platform arrangemen


. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AT C. LOOKING SOUTH Streel vided in the contract drawings that the passenger plat-forms of the stations should be at the level of the would enable every portion of the edge of the plat-form, whether straight or curved, to be used by the carsin receiving and discharging passengers. At a later time,after a conference with railway officials, it was decided. FIG. 1.—PLAN OF BOYLSTON STREET STATION evident to the people of Boston if the new plan is to meetwith favor. PLATFORMS AND STATIONS A great many studies of platform arrangements (twenty-three of the Boylston Street Station alone) have been madeat various times by the commissions engineers. Theofficials of the West End Street Railway Company, which


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