. The Street railway journal . FIG THE ELEVATED TRAIN LOADING AND EXIT GATES AT THE CULVER DEPOTAT CONEY ISLAND handling trains under very close headway; train movementswill be greatly facilitated by the very complete system of inter-locking switches and signals which has been installed to coverall elevated train movements throughout the yard. The arrangement of the elevated train terminal is shown inan accompanying photograph, Fig. 1. Elevated platforms, ofa height of 42 ins. above rail level, are provided on both sides June ii, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 885 of every terminal track, five
. The Street railway journal . FIG THE ELEVATED TRAIN LOADING AND EXIT GATES AT THE CULVER DEPOTAT CONEY ISLAND handling trains under very close headway; train movementswill be greatly facilitated by the very complete system of inter-locking switches and signals which has been installed to coverall elevated train movements throughout the yard. The arrangement of the elevated train terminal is shown inan accompanying photograph, Fig. 1. Elevated platforms, ofa height of 42 ins. above rail level, are provided on both sides June ii, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 885 of every terminal track, five in all, two of which are nsed for of the confusion by the separating of the two classes of trafficpassengers entering outgoing trains, while the other three pro- permits trains to be unloaded, loaded and sent out again withvide exits for incoming trains. In this way incoming pas- the least possible delay. It is, indeed, thought that this arrange-. FIG. 3.—THE ELEVATED TEPMINAL DEPOT, SHOWING USE OF AN UNUSUAL FORM OF TICKET BOOTH, RESEMBLING THE END OF AN ELEVATED CAR sengers. leaving the trains, are thus kept entirely separatedfrom the outbound passengers, and the disagreeable scramblingand fighting to gain entrance before the cars are emptied is
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