. The Street railway journal . FIG. 18.—PLATFORM OF A PARLOR CARWITH ICE BOX ALSO USED AS A SEAT FIG. IQ—CABLE CAR WITH A SEAT EACHSIDE OF THE GRIPMAN ON THE PLATFORM wrong FIG, 13.—SIMPLE PLATFORM WITH THE ACCELERATORARRANGEMENT OF DOOR, PLATFORM AND STEPS near the step as possible, and often this is comljined with aplatform, closed on one side. On many lines where the cars run on loops, as in Cleve-land, Ohio, the left-hand side of both front and rear plat-forms is closed. This gives an entrance to the car, bothfront and in the rear, but only on the right-hand side. Theclosing of one
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 18.—PLATFORM OF A PARLOR CARWITH ICE BOX ALSO USED AS A SEAT FIG. IQ—CABLE CAR WITH A SEAT EACHSIDE OF THE GRIPMAN ON THE PLATFORM wrong FIG, 13.—SIMPLE PLATFORM WITH THE ACCELERATORARRANGEMENT OF DOOR, PLATFORM AND STEPS near the step as possible, and often this is comljined with aplatform, closed on one side. On many lines where the cars run on loops, as in Cleve-land, Ohio, the left-hand side of both front and rear plat-forms is closed. This gives an entrance to the car, bothfront and in the rear, but only on the right-hand side. Theclosing of one side of a platform greatly increases its ca- The manager is always certain that the en-trances are right as regards the other track. There are two modifications of this idea, one of them is the closing of diago-nally opposite open-ings, so that the carmay run in either di-rection, the other pro-vides no forward en-trance at all, and therear platform is closedon one side. Both ofthese ideas presupposethat the rear entranceonly can be crowds have tobe handled at terminalsboth platforms shouldbe used, or the cars willbe greatly delayed. Oneentrance to a platformi
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