The Ways of Our Railways
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One of the great advantages accruing from the use of electric traction for suburban service is that the engine-shunting above described is eliminated, as a " multiple-imit " train can be driven equally well from either end. All that is necessary is for the driver to walk from the motor-car at one end to the motor-car at the other. This improvement exactly halves the mmiber of signal operations and track occupations necessary in reversing a suburban train and reduces the time taken in getting in... and out of a ''bay" from about eight minutes to three or four. In short, with electric traction each plat- form can do more than double the work it did with steam ; and having regard to the enormous cost of terminal widenings in large cities, a change of motive-power, expensive though it is, may easily prove cheaper, from this cause alone, than the doubling of the station accommodation, especially as the new platforms will probably not be needed except for a few hours morning and evening. These considerations were foremost amongst those which induced the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com- pany to electrify their line between Liverpool and Southport.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One of the great advantages accruing from the use of electric traction for suburban service is that the engine-shunting above described is eliminated, as a " multiple-imit " train can be driven equally well from either end. All that is necessary is for the driver to walk from the motor-car at one end to the motor-car at the other. This improvement exactly halves the mmiber of signal operations and track occupations necessary in reversing a suburban train and reduces the time taken in getting in... and out of a ''bay" from about eight minutes to three or four. In short, with electric traction each plat- form can do more than double the work it did with steam ; and having regard to the enormous cost of terminal widenings in large cities, a change of motive-power, expensive though it is, may easily prove cheaper, from this cause alone, than the doubling of the station accommodation, especially as the new platforms will probably not be needed except for a few hours morning and evening. These considerations were foremost amongst those which induced the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com- pany to electrify their line between Liverpool and Southport.
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