. The Street railway journal . and in the accompanying gen-eral views of the station interiors. The capacityof the platforms, while not expected to be suchas to forever prevent overcrowding on specialdavs, when several times the normal pressuremay be thrown upon them, is nevertheless farin excess of the usual requirements, as shown by thecareful and repeated counting of the street car passengerson present surface routes along the subway. As beforeintimated, the platform arrangement is such that the reg-ular patrons of the subway will soon come to know theplatform where their own particular car


. The Street railway journal . and in the accompanying gen-eral views of the station interiors. The capacityof the platforms, while not expected to be suchas to forever prevent overcrowding on specialdavs, when several times the normal pressuremay be thrown upon them, is nevertheless farin excess of the usual requirements, as shown by thecareful and repeated counting of the street car passengerson present surface routes along the subway. As beforeintimated, the platform arrangement is such that the reg-ular patrons of the subway will soon come to know theplatform where their own particular car may be found,while the difficulties to strangers are likewise reduced toa minimum. 496 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No. 9. The sides of the subway near the stations are lined with CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT white enameled brick. The stairways are covered with An excellent idea of the subway throughout its entirebuildings of classic if somewhat stolid design, and with length (as at present open) may be obtained from the. FIG. 2— PLAN OF PARK STREET STATION


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