. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . number of suburban passen-gers carried on these lines during theyear ended June jO, 1909, was 74,541^51,and the revenue derived therefrom,£ About 1,300 suburban trainsand pasengers arrive and leave Chicago. This car was very fully illus-trated and described in our March, 1906,issue, page 126. As a result of his ob-servations the car shown in our illustra-tions, was designed to meet the require-ments of the Melbourne suburban Tait was formerly manager of trans-porta
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . number of suburban passen-gers carried on these lines during theyear ended June jO, 1909, was 74,541^51,and the revenue derived therefrom,£ About 1,300 suburban trainsand pasengers arrive and leave Chicago. This car was very fully illus-trated and described in our March, 1906,issue, page 126. As a result of his ob-servations the car shown in our illustra-tions, was designed to meet the require-ments of the Melbourne suburban Tait was formerly manager of trans-portation on the Canadian Pacific suburban carriage hitherto in useat Melbourne is of the ordinary cross- vacant seats in other compartments. In order that the seating accommoda-tions would not be diminished by thispassage-way, the cars have been madeabout I ft wider, and this has necessi-tated the use of sliding doors, as therewould not be sufficient clearance of othertrains on double tracks or of structuresif swinging doors were used. Apart fromthis consideration, however, sliding doors. I kAii< ijk ^iAH ;i f)l\ Itir. ^ < i-ic ■ cnirai i :i; every day. When Mr •, iIk- chairman of the Virt ly Commission wai in Europe and America, three year* igo, he inspected varioui type* of tubur- then in use, including thoie t been conitructed for ler- ■■ •Tg-Altona line and the tide door cart run- Central Railway at c<iiii| non-corridor type with•.HiiiisiMi} doors for each he iniprovcmcnti introduced by are the provision of a passage-wayand the substitution of sliding doors forthe swinging doors. The object of thepassage-way is to permit of passengersdistributing thrmtelves throughout thecar, thus obviating the overcrowding ufone rr-mpartmcnl when there may be are considered to be an ^c, asthey do away with noise, eliminating anelement of danger, and reduce the ex-pense
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