. Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners . Highway. \JNNEL\ r 1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 14. 143 for example, at Hannover, Strasburg, Bremen, Miinster, and Gottin-gen) .* In the wedge form, the principal platform and station buildingoccupy the space between the diverging roads. It is very possi-ble to make the two roads cross each other at separate grades,before arriving at the station, in which case we have a crossingstation with the wedge form. The space at the angle between thetwo roads either retains the triangular form, or it is in other caseselongated into a nearly r
. Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners . Highway. \JNNEL\ r 1889.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 14. 143 for example, at Hannover, Strasburg, Bremen, Miinster, and Gottin-gen) .* In the wedge form, the principal platform and station buildingoccupy the space between the diverging roads. It is very possi-ble to make the two roads cross each other at separate grades,before arriving at the station, in which case we have a crossingstation with the wedge form. The space at the angle between thetwo roads either retains the triangular form, or it is in other caseselongated into a nearly rectangular space by running the two linesof railroad parallel to each other for some distance. Each of the tworoads, therefore, is on one side of the principal platform, just as inway stations, and is generally arranged with two main tracks and anintermediate platform. If the two corporations are distinct, one sidebelongs to each of them. If other branch roads enter at the samestation, they are, as in way stations, either run in on platforms ex-tended from th
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