. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—INTERIOR OF LYON STATION taken from the Hotel de Ville station looking down thetunnel (Fig. 7) it will be seen that the bridge is quite low,clearing the car roofs by only a small margin This con-struction effectually prevents use of the railway by the. FIG. 10.—CABLE VAULTS AND GALLERIES AT PLACDE LETOILE rolling stock of the State roads, the Metropolitan carsbeing only about 11 ft. 2 ins. in height above the rails. The junction of the several lines at the Place de lEtoilehas demanded a most extensive system of undergroundtunneling at that site, but the a
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 8.—INTERIOR OF LYON STATION taken from the Hotel de Ville station looking down thetunnel (Fig. 7) it will be seen that the bridge is quite low,clearing the car roofs by only a small margin This con-struction effectually prevents use of the railway by the. FIG. 10.—CABLE VAULTS AND GALLERIES AT PLACDE LETOILE rolling stock of the State roads, the Metropolitan carsbeing only about 11 ft. 2 ins. in height above the rails. The junction of the several lines at the Place de lEtoilehas demanded a most extensive system of undergroundtunneling at that site, but the additional requirements of asub-station for electric power, and large rooms for ac-cumulators, together with elevator pits and accommoda-tion for the necessary operating machinery and watertanks, have combined to make an elaborate honey-comb of subterranean galleries, halls and stairways, with- out mentioning the three immense stations. Thus theTriumphal Arch above may well be held to represent anew triumph, not of war, but of architectural and engineer-ing skill, executed amid countless difficulties in the depthsof the earth over which the stately monument is raised. At the Etoile station one line passes beneath the others,requiring very deep excavation in order to build the lower
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