. The street railway review . ouse equipments comprise 200-h. p. motors, andthe turret controller is mounted in an insulated cab, similar tothose of the Thomson-Houston type of equipments. Some ninetyof these equipments have been furnished and most of them arealready in service on the new line. The feature of this type ofcontrol, as is well known, is the suppression of the soo-volt traincable, the control circuit being operated in conjunction with com- Feu. is, 1905] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 185 pressed air by means of a is-volt battery. The trains comprise fivecars, two or three being motor car
. The street railway review . ouse equipments comprise 200-h. p. motors, andthe turret controller is mounted in an insulated cab, similar tothose of the Thomson-Houston type of equipments. Some ninetyof these equipments have been furnished and most of them arealready in service on the new line. The feature of this type ofcontrol, as is well known, is the suppression of the soo-volt traincable, the control circuit being operated in conjunction with com- Feu. is, 1905] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 185 pressed air by means of a is-volt battery. The trains comprise fivecars, two or three being motor cars. Ilic length of these motorcars is 13 meters and they have capacity for 74 passengers of whomabout 45 would stand. The maximum lengtli of trains is 72 meters, the station-platformsbeing only 75 meters long. At rush hours a .^minute headwaywill be given to the trains, when the service is well in hand; atother times, as for instance early morning and late evening, a 510 8-minute service is niaiulained. 2. 3-Section II—4. 5-. MAP OF METROPOUTAN RAILWAY OF PARIS. From the accompanying map it will be seen that the lines nowopen form a divided irregular ellipse, the division being made byline No. 3. Line No. I extends from Vincennes to Porte Maillot,and line No. 2, following the northern outer boulevards, makesjunction at the Place de la Nation and at the Etoile. Line No. 3originates in a loop at Courcclles, beneath the Pare Monceau, mak-ing there a junction with line No. 2, and proceeds to the Gare and the Opera, and follows at a short distance the centralboulevards as far as the Place de la Republique, whence it proceedsto Pere Lachaise Cemetery, passing below line No. 2 with whichit again makes junction. Place Gambetta is reached a short timeafter leaving Pere Lachaise Cemetery. The line is one of the most important of the network of the
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