. Electric railway journal . ities per square mile for 1910-11 are St. James,with , and Marylebone, with Neither of thesehad car lines. The area which has the largest numberof fatalities recorded in 1912 was Bow, where therewere 28, of which four were put down to trams and 24to other power vehicles. The select committee did notthink that anything had been shown to connect withtramways, even indirectly, the alarming rise of fatali-ties of recent years. 1348 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 24. AUTOMATIC SIGNALS ON THE CHESTER SHORTLINE The Chester Short Line, which is operat
. Electric railway journal . ities per square mile for 1910-11 are St. James,with , and Marylebone, with Neither of thesehad car lines. The area which has the largest numberof fatalities recorded in 1912 was Bow, where therewere 28, of which four were put down to trams and 24to other power vehicles. The select committee did notthink that anything had been shown to connect withtramways, even indirectly, the alarming rise of fatali-ties of recent years. 1348 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 24. AUTOMATIC SIGNALS ON THE CHESTER SHORTLINE The Chester Short Line, which is operated by thePhiladelphia Rapid Transit Company, extends fromCity Hall subway in Philadelphia to Third and MarketStreets, Chester, a distance of 14% miles. The route islargely on private right-of-way and is double trackedexcept for two single track stretches, totaling about21/4s miles. Cars on this route, No. 37, have a headwayof fifteen minutes in each direction. A second route,No. 83, operates every ten minutes on one of these. DoubleTrack Electric Ry Journal Philadelphia Signals—Diagram Showing Signal Locationand Control pieces of single track, between Elmwood Avenue andIsland Road. At Eddystone, near Chester, the Baldwin Locomo-tive Works is located, and to serve this plant trippersare run in the morning and at night to City Hall sub-way. Some of these are stored on Morton Avenue spur,shown on the attached diagrams, and enter the lastsingle track block in the middle, as many as four some-times following in succession. Other trippers areturned at Saville Avenue and also at No. 10 Switch. Elmwood Avenue and Island Road is a loop terminusfor several lines, and the single track begins at thispoint on Island Road. At Lyons—y2 mile south—thereis a through turnout, and at Eastwick Avenue—V2 milefurther—the double track is resumed, which continuesfor about 6V2 miles. On Saturday and Sunday after-noons the headway over this portion as far as DarbyCreek is reduced to seven and
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