. Railway age . f Walk-Over Type with One Aisle.(.>2 Seats.)If a single aisle Is used a very satisfactory seating capa>-ltywith the present subway car fitted with central side doors can beobtained by using cross seats of the walk-over lype, spaced Inthe car without reference to the present windows. The seatspacing can be rearranged much better with the seat of the walk-over type than with a seat of the back-to-back type, as the for-mer Is not required to fit the framing of the car. The average passenger appears to prefer a front-facing seat,and this car provides the maximum number of sea
. Railway age . f Walk-Over Type with One Aisle.(.>2 Seats.)If a single aisle Is used a very satisfactory seating capa>-ltywith the present subway car fitted with central side doors can beobtained by using cross seats of the walk-over lype, spaced Inthe car without reference to the present windows. The seatspacing can be rearranged much better with the seat of the walk-over type than with a seat of the back-to-back type, as the for-mer Is not required to fit the framing of the car. The average passenger appears to prefer a front-facing seat,and this car provides the maximum number of seats of this a sutflcient number of cars could be passed through the subwayto keep the standing passengers down to 50 passengers per car,there is no doubt that a car of this type would give excellent satis-faction, but as soon as this car is called upon to carry 100 passen-gers standing In addition to 52 seated passengers, the congestionin the long, narrow aisle will slow down the movement of passen- rno-Q. n • .-fV -| DID q^ Fig. 1—Present Car Before and After Being Altered to a Car With Central Side Doors. March 6, 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 30; gers inside the car, and the car would then unload slowly andneutralize the advantages gained by the introduction of the cen-tral door. CAR WITH TWO QUARTER SIDE On roads where the traffic is not as heavy as in the subway, atype of car with two doors, each located about one-fourth thelength of the car from the end, is sometimes advocated. This typeof car would have as many doors as the present tnddoor car, but ■the doors dividing the lar into quarters would give the quarter-iloor car the advantage of providing the shortest average distanceliom the door to the seat. This car would therefoie cause thepasseuKers to occupy the center of the car and thus use the entirelength of the car more effectively than it is now used in the presentend-door type. With cars of this type, each door should be of double width. with th
Size: 2112px × 1183px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidrailwayage44, bookyear1870
