. Electric railway journal . ion is afforded by a double-file escalatorbetween the unloading surface car platform and the ele-vated train platform, and the separation of inboundand outbound traffic is assured by the location of load- is made there with the suburban cars of the Middlesex& Boston Street Railway, there was considerable con-gestion at Newton during layovers, due also in part toheavy automobile traffic and the use of Newton Cornerby pedestrians. Service was rearranged by the com-pany so that the through lines mentioned above termi-nate at the Watertown carhouse, and in place of the
. Electric railway journal . ion is afforded by a double-file escalatorbetween the unloading surface car platform and the ele-vated train platform, and the separation of inboundand outbound traffic is assured by the location of load- is made there with the suburban cars of the Middlesex& Boston Street Railway, there was considerable con-gestion at Newton during layovers, due also in part toheavy automobile traffic and the use of Newton Cornerby pedestrians. Service was rearranged by the com-pany so that the through lines mentioned above termi-nate at the Watertown carhouse, and in place of thepaper transfers previously issued, a free bodily transfernow enables through passengers to continue their jour-neys between Cambridge and Newton by a change atWatertown under shelter and within an area located onthe companys property instead of in the street as form-erly. Conditions at Newton have been greatly improvedby this change, and the facilities for operating bothnormal and rush-hour service on short headway lines. BOSTON STATION IMPROVEMENTS—PLANS AND SECTIONS OF EGLESTON SQUARE STATION WHICH PROVIDES BODILY TRANSFER WITHIN PREPAYMENT AREA ing and discharge berths. On a smaller scale and withlittle modification of its original design for train serviceother than the addition required in connection withsurface car service, the Egleston Square station is beingequipped to perform similar functions as the largerstation at Dudley Street. Surface Transfer Station at Watertown Station improvements on the surface lines of the com-pany at Watertown, Mass., are illustrated in anotherplan, and also by a half-tone engraving. Watertown isnow the terminus of important lines operated fromNorth Cambridge through the Harvard Square stationof the Cambridge subway and Mount Auburn districtwestward, and from Park Street subway station inBoston through Allston, Brighton and Newton, withcorresponding return service. Formerly Newton Cor-ner was the terminus of these lines, and as connection
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