. The Street railway journal . LOCAL TRACK BEFORE CONCRETE IS FILLED IN io86 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. regulated automatically by floats. The stations on the present sec-tion are located at Fifteenth Street,Nineteenth Street and at the eastend of the Schuylkill River Bridge,near the line of Twenty-FourthStreet. The latter station is de-signed to make connection withthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad sta-tion, and, with the Fifteenth Streetstation, is for both express and lo-cal trains. The stations at Nine-teenth and Twenty-Fourth Streetsare intended for the trolley cars«nly. The
. The Street railway journal . LOCAL TRACK BEFORE CONCRETE IS FILLED IN io86 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. regulated automatically by floats. The stations on the present sec-tion are located at Fifteenth Street,Nineteenth Street and at the eastend of the Schuylkill River Bridge,near the line of Twenty-FourthStreet. The latter station is de-signed to make connection withthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad sta-tion, and, with the Fifteenth Streetstation, is for both express and lo-cal trains. The stations at Nine-teenth and Twenty-Fourth Streetsare intended for the trolley cars«nly. The stations are to be fin-ished in glazed tile, probably of abuff color. Ground was broken for the sub-way work on April 6, 1903, atTwenty-Third and Market Streetsto begin the reconstruction of thesewerage system, «which necessar-ily preceded the work on the sub-way proper. LIGHTINGThe lighting circuits in the sub-way are entirely separate from thepower circuits. The subway light-ing system is divided into sectionsabout y2 mile in length, and thelamps at each station and for a dis-tance half way to the next stat
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