. The Street railway journal . —a station capacity largerby far than that of any railway terminus in the world. A plan of the Southern Terminal is seen in Fig. 4, anda section in Fig. 6. From these the location of the loopcan be readily understood, and it will be seen also from thecurvature of the outer loop (262-ft. radius) that it is only ina station of such enormous size that a scheme of this kindis feasible. The platform capacity of the two-track loopin the subway is sixty cars, each 40 ft. in length, a capacitygreater than will probably be called for for some years tocome; and the inner l
. The Street railway journal . —a station capacity largerby far than that of any railway terminus in the world. A plan of the Southern Terminal is seen in Fig. 4, anda section in Fig. 6. From these the location of the loopcan be readily understood, and it will be seen also from thecurvature of the outer loop (262-ft. radius) that it is only ina station of such enormous size that a scheme of this kindis feasible. The platform capacity of the two-track loopin the subway is sixty cars, each 40 ft. in length, a capacitygreater than will probably be called for for some years tocome; and the inner loop will be used only if the trafficshould eventually exceed the capacity of the outer. Pass-sengers will enter the main station and pass down stair-ways to the loading platform, which is that between thetwo tracks, and which will accommodate 25,000 peopleat a time. Here will be gates and penstocks, from whichthe trains for given lines will depart, and these penstockscan be filled before the arrival of the train. The unload-. * March, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. s6i ing platforms will be on the outside of the loop, and fromit passengers will find an exit directly to the street, withlittle obstruction to the outward flow. When the innertrack of the loop is used it will, of course, be necessary tomake the innermost platform an unloading one also, andfrom it passengers will have to find an exit to the midwayabove, or over stairways and bridges to the outer unload-ing platform. This plan is, of course, less desirable thanthe first, but is a necessity of the situation. The inter-
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