. The Street railway journal . STIBULE OF , WITH CIRCULAR GRAB-HANDLE FIG. 24. -FRONT END OFMOTOR CAR IlllKD-CLASS FIG. 25 -MERSEY RAILaVAY, DESTINATK INSIGN low cost of the elevated line, but also of the subway, where aheadroom was possible of only 10 ft. to ins. from rail to roofbeams, and a width of 20 ft. 6 ins. between side walls. While cross seats are de- sirable as accelera-tion increases theywere not possiblewith the width al-lowed in Berlin;but the longitudinalseats, as f oundthere, seem fullyequal to cross seats,especially as thereare no jerks instarting or stop-ping.
. The Street railway journal . STIBULE OF , WITH CIRCULAR GRAB-HANDLE FIG. 24. -FRONT END OFMOTOR CAR IlllKD-CLASS FIG. 25 -MERSEY RAILaVAY, DESTINATK INSIGN low cost of the elevated line, but also of the subway, where aheadroom was possible of only 10 ft. to ins. from rail to roofbeams, and a width of 20 ft. 6 ins. between side walls. While cross seats are de- sirable as accelera-tion increases theywere not possiblewith the width al-lowed in Berlin;but the longitudinalseats, as f oundthere, seem fullyequal to cross seats,especially as thereare no jerks instarting or stop-ping. Indeed, thereseems little need ofthe many handleswith which thecars are supplied,so frequent that afirm support is al-ways within reachfrom the time oneenters a car untilhe is seated (). Passengersopen and shut thedoors themselves,there being onlyone guard to atrain. This customsee m s perfectly-safe, as people are used to it on the steam roads, and then onthe elevated line there is no hurry or crowding. In spite oi the. FIG. 2G.—MERSEY RAILWAY, FIRST-CLASSCAR quietest of any electric road known to the writer. The carshave no platforms, end doors being only for emergency abolition of the inside door found in this country is an ex-cellent improvement, the glazed partitions with projections toprotect the feet of passengers giving ample shelter fromdraughts in winter when the side doors are open, especially asthe stations are completely enclosed. Our car platforms oughtto be so completely vestibuled as to make the inside door un-necessary, especially as the latter allows an opening wideenough for only one person to pass in or out at once, where theBerlin arrangement allows two. With side doors of double-width, as in Paris and Berlin, and by the Berlin plan of havingall passengers enter at the rear and leave at the front end ofcars, our present circulation could usually be doubled. The exterior of the cars is plain (Fig. 24), but tasteful colorand cleanliness make
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