. Electric railway journal . equipped with a waiting room, news standand other public conveniences. On account of the fre-quency of the train service it was unnecessary to providemore than nominal waiting room facilities. The platformis connected with the surface or street level below by twoascending type Otis escalators operated at a speed of 80 minute and having a capacity of 4500 passengers perhour each. The escalators are of the step type, with treads16 in. deep and 24 in. wide, the vertical rise of eachescalator being 21 ft. 9 in. and the length of the incline43 ft. 6 in. Each esca
. Electric railway journal . equipped with a waiting room, news standand other public conveniences. On account of the fre-quency of the train service it was unnecessary to providemore than nominal waiting room facilities. The platformis connected with the surface or street level below by twoascending type Otis escalators operated at a speed of 80 minute and having a capacity of 4500 passengers perhour each. The escalators are of the step type, with treads16 in. deep and 24 in. wide, the vertical rise of eachescalator being 21 ft. 9 in. and the length of the incline43 ft. 6 in. Each escalator is driven through gearing by a I5hp, 550-volt motor located in a concrete chamberoff a mezzanine floor under the trainmens lobby, shown inthe plan already mentioned, behind the starters moving stairways are operated continuously duringthe hours of train and car service. By furnishing a quickmeans of ascent from the discharging surface cars whichenter the terminal on the street level, they do away with. Boston Improvements—Southbound Train Platform, Sulli-van Square Terminal traffic congestion on the loading and unloading areas servedby the latter cars. The west train platform is overlooked by a starters office8 ft. wide and 25 ft. long, raised about 6 ft. above theplatform level and equipped with large bay windows com-manding an unobstructed view of all approaching starters office is furnished with one Bell and twocompany private telephones, two receiving and sending tele-graph sets connected with the dispatching offices, towersand other important operating centers, a track model 6 of the elevated lines entering and leaving the station,
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