Word: station
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Newton and North Cambridge will enter the tubes at Cambridge common and Murray street respectively. Both tubes are so built that a platform two feet wide runs beside the tracks for the entire distance so that in case of accident or breakdown the passengers can walk to the nearest station without incurring any risk from electric wires...
Although there are but two tracks in the tunnel beyond the Harvard square station they branch out into three at the entrance of the terminal yard where they connect with any one of 20 tracks in the shop, shed and the storage yard. The yard plans show three tracks in the machine shop, five in the inspection shed, nine in the storage yard, of which only six will be installed now, an extra track on the other side, and a loop track around the entire terminal...
...tracks in the buildings have pits under them for inspection of the running gear and repair work. The loop track makes direct connection with the Harvard square station and swings around the terminal to a long platform on the Boylston street side, called the "football platform." This track and platform will be used exclusively for the athletic games at the Stadium. There are eight exits and entrances with short flights of stairs from the street to the platform...
Tickets for the observation trains and special trains may be obtained at Leavitt & Peirce's Cambridge, and at the South Station, Boston...
...special train will leave New York from the Grand Central Station at 12.05 P. M. This train is due in New London...