. The Street railway journal . lectric railways will pass under the Wabash maintracks to the plaza in front of the main entrance. The Wabashmain tracks will be elevated for a short distance for that pur-pose, as the general scheme is to avoid surface crossing oftracks in any direction. The St. Louis Transit Company, during the Worlds Fairseason, will abandon its loop at the pavilion in Forest Parksouth of De Baliviere Avenue, and will establish two WorldsFair terminal loops for its cars arriving via Baliviere Avenueand De Giverville Avenue. These loops will be located northof the Wabash main t
. The Street railway journal . lectric railways will pass under the Wabash maintracks to the plaza in front of the main entrance. The Wabashmain tracks will be elevated for a short distance for that pur-pose, as the general scheme is to avoid surface crossing oftracks in any direction. The St. Louis Transit Company, during the Worlds Fairseason, will abandon its loop at the pavilion in Forest Parksouth of De Baliviere Avenue, and will establish two WorldsFair terminal loops for its cars arriving via Baliviere Avenueand De Giverville Avenue. These loops will be located northof the Wabash main tracks, as already stated, and the streetrailway passengers will walk through the subway to the plazain front of the main entrance. The Wabash will construct arrival and departure platformsfor the accommodation of the main or through line traffic, andsouth of its main tracks the Wabash will locate its WorldsFair terminus proper for excursion trains, etc. This will be apocket depot, with ten or more parallel tracks, and the pas-. TERMINAL PLANS FOR THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION sengers will walk across the plaza direct to the main entranceof the exposition grounds. The carriage and automobile ap-proach to the main gate will be immediately south of theWabash depot. The Wabash will make arrangements to handlelocal as well as excursion and through traffic during the WorldsFair season, and the local trains will be operated on the shuttlaplan adopted by the Illinois Central in caring for the ChicagoWorlds Fair business in 1893. The details of the plan shown in the diagram have not yetbeen worked out, but the conference finally disposed of themain question—the location of the terminals for the steam andthe electric lines and the plaza arrangements in front of themain entrance, to provide ample space for egress and ingressat the Fair. August 8, 1903.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 197 INTERURBAN RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT INGREAT BRITAIN—I BY HON. ROBERT P. PORTER Electrical traction is undoubtedly m
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