. The street railway review . rm Among the manufacturers representatives present at the ses-sion were W. E. Ludlow, Cleveland Armature Works; E. C. Ruth-ertord, National Brake Co.; L. J. Drake, Jr., Galena Signal OilCo.; K. D. Hequenbourg, Franklin Car Heating Co.; George , C. C. Blake. E. J. Burke, Blake Signal & Manufactur-ing Co.; W. H. Bloss, Buda Foundry & Manufacturing Co. andMessrs. Turner, Hutchins, Craig, Johnson, Parke, Leary, Ames,Newburn, Farmer, Olmstead, Clark, Donovan, Down and Burns,of the Westinghouse company. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. The Underground Elec
. The street railway review . rm Among the manufacturers representatives present at the ses-sion were W. E. Ludlow, Cleveland Armature Works; E. C. Ruth-ertord, National Brake Co.; L. J. Drake, Jr., Galena Signal OilCo.; K. D. Hequenbourg, Franklin Car Heating Co.; George , C. C. Blake. E. J. Burke, Blake Signal & Manufactur-ing Co.; W. H. Bloss, Buda Foundry & Manufacturing Co. andMessrs. Turner, Hutchins, Craig, Johnson, Parke, Leary, Ames,Newburn, Farmer, Olmstead, Clark, Donovan, Down and Burns,of the Westinghouse company. The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway. The Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Limit-ed, has just distributed in pamphlet form, :i very complete descrip-tion of the new Baker Street & Waterloo Ry. This well illustrateddescription, which is presented here in abstract, is a reprint from theTramway and Railway World, of London. The Baker Street & Waterloo Ry., which at the time of writing ison the the eve of being opened for service, is a line possessing. INTERIOR OF CHELSEA POWER STATION OF THE UNDERGROUNDELECTRIC RAILWAYS CO. OF LONDON. great interest, alike from the engineering, the traffic, and the publicpoints of view. While it is a tube railway, and as such is not anovelty, it presents many features which are radical departures fromany designs which have been carried out before. The road wasincorporated by an act of parliament and construction was author-ized in 1893 but construction work did not start until some timelater. When Mr. Yerkes obtained control the work was pushed for-ward energetically. The total length of the railway when completed will be five and aquarter miles, but of this about half a mile is not yet under con-struction. The extremities of the line are now nearing completion,but they do not interfere with the working of the route from Ken-sington Road to Baker St., a distance of three and one-eighth miles. The railway will serve many of the most important districts inLondon, running as it does through
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