. The Street railway journal . r-miles per detention and car-miles per min-ute of detention. On July 4, which might be said to havebeen the first crucial test of the electrically equipped road, therewas not a detention due to defects of electrical equipment. Thecar equipment is generally responsible for most of the deten-tions; occasionally, however, the third-rail and the power-houseare at fault. TRAIN OPERATION The daily and Sunday time tables are followed closely andcomparatively few extra trains are run, as the length of trains October 12, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 627 is made
. The Street railway journal . r-miles per detention and car-miles per min-ute of detention. On July 4, which might be said to havebeen the first crucial test of the electrically equipped road, therewas not a detention due to defects of electrical equipment. Thecar equipment is generally responsible for most of the deten-tions; occasionally, however, the third-rail and the power-houseare at fault. TRAIN OPERATION The daily and Sunday time tables are followed closely andcomparatively few extra trains are run, as the length of trains October 12, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 627 is made to vary with the traffic. At times when the numberof passengers is uncertain a train of six cars is kept at the ter-minal. The rear cars are closed and as the front ones fill upthe rear ones are opened one by one to accommodate the new Camden and Glassboro and local service between AtlanticCity and Newfield. For regular trains a system of numbers has been adoptedsuch that the numbers distinguish electric from steam trains, and. DIAGRAM SHOWING TIME-TABLE OF TRAINS ON WEST JERSEY AND SEASHORE RAILROAD arrivals. The length of trains consequently varies from one tosix cars. During July the average length was 3 cars. The whole schedule is made up of four different sets of runs,express service between Camden and Atlantic City, throughtrains between Camden and Millville, local service between also indicate the service the train is in and to an extent thetime of leaving the terminal. Electric trains are numberedfrom 1 000 to 1 700. Numbers from 1 000 to 1200 are re-served for Camden-Atlantic City express trains; 1200 to 1400to Camden to Millville; 1400 to 1600, Camden to Glass- 628 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 15. boro; and 1 600 to 1 700 to Atlantic City and Newfield numbers are reserved for each hour. This allows foreight trains out of one terminal per hour without changing thenumbers of trains already scheduled. For example, the firsttrain out of Camden in th
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