. The railroad and engineering journal . ers dailybetween the center of the city of Lyons and the heights ofCroix-Rousse. To provide for this in some degree therewas built in 1878 a cable railroad from Fourviere to Saint-Just, This has been of great service to the city, but 10 years experience has shown that it served really onlyabout one-third of the people who every day go to theCroix-Rousse. The rest of the movement passed by wayof the Grande Cote and Saint Sebastian. It was thereforedecided that it would pay to build a second cable roadnear Mt. Saint Sebastian, starting from the Croix-Paqu
. The railroad and engineering journal . ers dailybetween the center of the city of Lyons and the heights ofCroix-Rousse. To provide for this in some degree therewas built in 1878 a cable railroad from Fourviere to Saint-Just, This has been of great service to the city, but 10 years experience has shown that it served really onlyabout one-third of the people who every day go to theCroix-Rousse. The rest of the movement passed by wayof the Grande Cote and Saint Sebastian. It was thereforedecided that it would pay to build a second cable roadnear Mt. Saint Sebastian, starting from the Croix-Paquet,which is a center toward which there is a large daily move-ment of passengers. A* concession was accordingly ob-tained from the Government in December, 1887, for sucha line, as a railroad of local interest. The line starts from the Croix-Paquet at one corner ofthe Public Garden and at the meeting of three of the prin-cipal streets of the city. The road consists of two tangentsunited by a curve. ()ne of these tangents is meters. and the other meters in length, and the entirelengthof the line is meters. The height above water-levelat the starting point is meters, and that of the upperend of the road is meters, so that the vertical riseis meters. The radius of the curye is 250 meters,and the maximum grade is per cent. Leaving the starting point, the line crosses the PublicGarden from the Croix-Paquet station ; this station faceson an entrance court, which is in an excavation of 43meters in length, bounded partly by a retaining wall andpartly by an earth-bank, the slopes being sodded andplanted with trees, in order not to interfere with the gen-eral appearance of the Public Garden. Just beyond thestation foot passengers can cross the track on a handsomeiron bridge. The line then passes at once into a tunnel of arched sec-tion, 7 meters in width at the springing of the arch and
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