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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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s. Very complete statistics regarding French street rail-ways fortunately appeared in France a short time ago, andwere prepared by the secretary of the French Street Rail-way Association, who presents in his preface many inter-esting facts regarding French railways, and which areequally applicable to the conditions prevalent in othercountries. The French law of 1880 carefully classified alltransportation systems for purposes of regulation and de- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. June 7, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 701 fined the attitude of the government toward them. Theterm tramways is here used officially to designate not onlystreet railways, but also certain classes of interurban steamrailroads which connect small cities and villages and trav-erse territory which is not inhabited. Up to the end of1900, 4223 km of such lines had been authorized. Of thisnumber, the latter class of steam roads represented 2488km of the total, while the actual city street railways wereonly 1735 km in length.
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MULTIPLE UNIT TRAIN ON THE WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE In 1886 mechanical traction for tramways was not men-tioned in the statistics. In 1887, of the total 720 km of rail-ways, 158 km were operated by steam. In 1890 the firstelectric road was put in operation. It extended fromMontferrand to Royat, was 7 km in length and cost theenormous sum of 293,000 francs per kilometer. In 1893the second electric road, from Lyon to Sainte Foy, was putin operation with not quite 3 km of track. In the sameyear another 5-km road received a franchise. In 1895 a25-km electric road was put in operation, and in additionfive smaller roads, making a total of 34 km in length. Sincethen the progress has been so rapid that the writer mustrefer to the table below, which gives the state of the in-dustry up to the close of 1900. Referring to the table, it should be stated that, legally,the tramways are subdivided into several groups, whichmust be referred to, because the present statistics are ar-ranged on this bas

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