. The Street railway journal . lometers of French Tramways c LASS A Class c 1) v 2 rt l> CO 2H KIND OF MOTIVE POWER re 2i r h v a C/J c Q 1 3 3 9 33 133 145 r c\f\c 393 2,358 60 17 1 / 11 11 1 i 5 5 5 5° 3 61 01 A Z 22 22 67 3 113 r c 1 495 495 /D2 dLL UIIJ 111 cl l\Jl 0 . . 4 A 4 5 57 c 70 / Compressed iciii . vuiici aim 32 32 c 0 10 10 1 c 1 0 Electric system : Vedovelli and trolley 7 7 Steam (smokeless), accum- ulator and trolley 29 29 Electric conduit (caui- 1 85 45 130 130 Steam, with and without | smoke, accumulators > 95 95 95 and trolley J Horses, steam (Rowan, Serpellot, P
. The Street railway journal . lometers of French Tramways c LASS A Class c 1) v 2 rt l> CO 2H KIND OF MOTIVE POWER re 2i r h v a C/J c Q 1 3 3 9 33 133 145 r c\f\c 393 2,358 60 17 1 / 11 11 1 i 5 5 5 5° 3 61 01 A Z 22 22 67 3 113 r c 1 495 495 /D2 dLL UIIJ 111 cl l\Jl 0 . . 4 A 4 5 57 c 70 / Compressed iciii . vuiici aim 32 32 c 0 10 10 1 c 1 0 Electric system : Vedovelli and trolley 7 7 Steam (smokeless), accum- ulator and trolley 29 29 Electric conduit (caui- 1 85 45 130 130 Steam, with and without | smoke, accumulators > 95 95 95 and trolley J Horses, steam (Rowan, Serpellot, Purrey), com- 220 220 220 pressed air, accumulrs j 1 1 2 2 3 Total 2,075 574 2,649 34i 412 821 4,223 electric roads probably represent about 1100 km at theclose of 1900. Of all systems, the trolley is most extensively used ; there. PARIS ORLEANS RAILWAY, SECTION OF THE QUAI^DORSAY LINE being 100 roads in forty-eight departments. The con-duit (cauiveau in France) is used by five roads, the surface-contact system (Diatto, Claret and Vedovelli) on eight, ac-cumulators on six, compressed air on seven, steam oneighty-six and horses on twelve. Mr. Fuster remarks in his report that one result of thispolicy has been that when the trolley had finally to comein the various cities the roads were in large part equipped STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 23. by foreign companies, who established agencies in Francefor this purpose. What French managers themselves think about the ad-vantages of electricity for railway service may be gatheredfrom a speech by the president of the French Street Rail-way Association at a recent banquet of the InternationalStreet Railway Association. He said: The progress ofthe electric railway is the best means of ameliorating themiserable situation within the interior of cities caused bythe g
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