. The Street railway journal . PLAN OF CONCOURSE FLOOR, WITH WAITING ROOM, TICKET OFFICES, ETC March 9, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 421 the Cortlandt Street station is provided from Fulton, Cort-landt and Dey Streets, and by a tunnel connecting with theFulton Street station of the present subway. From Fultonand Cortlandt Streets the passengers descend by inclinedplanes or ramps, and from Dey Street by stairs to theconcourse floor, a plan of which is shown in Fig. 3. Thisfloor contains the usual waiting rooms with ticket offices,baggage rooms, restaurant, etc., and is connected by stairs nel
. The Street railway journal . PLAN OF CONCOURSE FLOOR, WITH WAITING ROOM, TICKET OFFICES, ETC March 9, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 421 the Cortlandt Street station is provided from Fulton, Cort-landt and Dey Streets, and by a tunnel connecting with theFulton Street station of the present subway. From Fultonand Cortlandt Streets the passengers descend by inclinedplanes or ramps, and from Dey Street by stairs to theconcourse floor, a plan of which is shown in Fig. 3. Thisfloor contains the usual waiting rooms with ticket offices,baggage rooms, restaurant, etc., and is connected by stairs nel to the Fulton Street subway station of the InterboroughRapid Transit Company. Figs. 5 to 8 illustrate the Hoboken sub-terminal, which isparticularly interesting on account of the arrangement madefor connecting at this place with the passenger station of theLackawanna (steam) Railroad, the surface trolley cars ofthe Public Service Corporation and the elevated cars of thelatter which use the North Hudson viaduct to reach Jersey. FIG. 4.—PLAN OF STATION AT CORTLANDT STREET with the platform level showfi in Fig. 4. Here there arefive loops which enter on the Cortlandt side and leave onthe Fulton Street side with 90-ft. radius curves. A novelfeature of this station is the separation of inbound and out-bound passengers. As has already been described, th; carsare provided with center and end entrances on each side. City Heights. Fig. 5 is a plan at this point of the PublicService loop and terminal, which is directly above the Hud-son Companies terminal. As will be noticed, the elevatedcars are brought in from the west, and after dischargingpassengers are carried around a loop to three outboundplatforms. The surface cars are also brought in from the
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