. The Street railway journal . be fullyprepared to meet any situation which may arise. In the United States it is a very usual thing for suburbanelectric railways to run on their own right of way outside thetowns, but on entering the towns to travel over the existingtramway tracks, and this method of procedure has met withconsiderable success. This, however, can scarcely be done inGreat Britain, because the girder rails prescribed by the Boardof Trade have such narrow grooves that wheels suitable forheavy suburban railway traffic cannot run on them. To this July 4, 1903.] must be added the fac
. The Street railway journal . be fullyprepared to meet any situation which may arise. In the United States it is a very usual thing for suburbanelectric railways to run on their own right of way outside thetowns, but on entering the towns to travel over the existingtramway tracks, and this method of procedure has met withconsiderable success. This, however, can scarcely be done inGreat Britain, because the girder rails prescribed by the Boardof Trade have such narrow grooves that wheels suitable forheavy suburban railway traffic cannot run on them. To this July 4, 1903.] must be added the fact that the maximum speed allowed in ourcities is very low, and that even if this were not so the majorityof the main thoroughfares are so narrow and tortuous that highspeeds could not he attained even if they were circumstances render it difficult, if not impossible, tobuild such lines as are to be found radiating from many of thelarge cities in America. There is, however, an alternative method which might be. Warrinyton | Scale 0 SOUTH LANCASHIRE TRAMWAYS adopted in the solution of the London and suburban trafficproblem; that is to say, an arrangement by which the numeroussuburban lines might be operated by high-speed electric carsor trains without involving the huge capital expenditure whichwould be entailed by an attempt to increase the terminal facili-ties of the existing railways. This might be effected by build-ing special lines of tubes or subways which would come to thesurface a few miles outside the town, and thus avoid thecrowded and congested area near the center. When they comeup to the surface they join up with the suburban lines. It seems highly probable that if the railway companies do notshow themselves to be ready and willing to initiate considerablereforms, not so much as regards lower and more uniform faresas in the direction of an accelerated and more frequent service,Parliament, under the advice of the Royal Commission, maybe prepared to gr
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