. Electric railway journal . American Electrifications—Approved Paoli Suburban Line,Pennsylvania Railroad, Out of Philadelphia It is miles in length, measured as single track, andconsists of a double track from Providence to Warren, asingle track from Warren to Bristol and Fall River re-spectively, sidings at Providence, etc. The service is ofstandard interurban character and includes the handlingof baggage. Electrification of this line made it possibleto give a faster schedule despite an increase in the numberof stops made by local trains. During 1907 the New Haven company added to its b
. Electric railway journal . American Electrifications—Approved Paoli Suburban Line,Pennsylvania Railroad, Out of Philadelphia It is miles in length, measured as single track, andconsists of a double track from Providence to Warren, asingle track from Warren to Bristol and Fall River re-spectively, sidings at Providence, etc. The service is ofstandard interurban character and includes the handlingof baggage. Electrification of this line made it possibleto give a faster schedule despite an increase in the numberof stops made by local trains. During 1907 the New Haven company added to its branchelectrifications the Middletown-Berlin-Meriden and Hart-ford-Vernon-Melrose lines in Connecticut. The Middle-town-Berlin section, miles long, and the Middletown-Meriden section, miles long, are of 600-volt plainoverhead construction. They were electrified to give moreprofitable feeders for the trunk lines and to build up. American Electrifications—Long Island Railroad and Penn-sylvania Terminals the towns served by providing connections with the localstreet cars. A description of the Middletown electrificationwas printed in the Street Railway Journal for Sept. 21,1907. The Vernon and Melrose lines follow the tracks of theHartford street railway system of the Connecticut Com-pany for miles to East Burnside, where the cars are deflected to the steam railroad right-of-way from Buckland,Manchester and Talcottville to Vernon Junction, a distanceof about miles single track. At Vernon Junction theline swings to the north and passes to Rockville and Mel-rose over single-track branches totaling miles of singletrack. The electrification of these lines made it possible tobring passengers into the business section of Hartford andlo improve the headway through the operation of singlecars. This line, which is of the catenary type, wasdescribed in the issue of the Street Railway Journal forDec. 7
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