Identifier: streetrailwayjo261905newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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na Tramway Company operated over 162 km (129.6miles), and had an equipment of 481 horse cars, 44 motor carsand 34 trailers. The total number of employees was 4661. Statistics are given for 1898, because in that year the tram-way company was liquidated and the system was taken over,through an arrangement with the city, by a construction andoperating corporation formed by Siemens & Halske. By theterms of its contract the latter company equipped the lines motor cars, 876 trailers, together with a number of special cars,such as snow sweepers, sprinklers, freight cars, repair cars, etc.At the end of 1904 the number of people employed was 6843,and the total capital invested 127,000,000 crowns ($25,400,000).During the first six months of 1905 the traffic amounted to26,000,000 car-km (16,120,000 car-miles) ; the number of pas-sengers, including commutation tickets, 90,000,000, with a totalincome of 13,000,000 crowns ($2,600,000). The fares are based on the zone system, and are as follows:
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VIEW SHOWING STANDARD TRAIN ON THE VIENNA TRAMWAY SYSTEM DURING THE RUSH HOURS, CONSISTING OF ONE MOTOR CAR AND TWO TRAILERS electrically and then turned them over to the Vienna munici-pality on January 1, 1902, at which time the electrification ofthe lines had been largely completed. The municipality alsopurchased during the same year the New Vienna TramwayCompany, which operated 57 km (45.6 miles) of track, partlyby steam and partly by animal traction; and in 1904 absorbedthe electric railway running from Vienna to Kagran, whichwas 6.2 km (5 miles) long, and included ten motor cars and 10, 12, 20 and 30 hellers ($.020, $.024, $.040 and $.050), with avery liberal transfer system, depending on the length of thedistance traveled. The fare on the original line was 20 hellers($.040) for a distance of 3.2 km (2.5 miles), but in 1895 theVienna Tramway Company reduced the rates to an average of17.6 hellers ($.037) per passenger. The present average fareis 14.43 hellers ($.029), while the av

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