LONDON TRAMWAYS
The complete linking up of the tramway service between North .and South London will be effected when the £326,000 scheme for deepening the Kingsway subway is completed, says the . Weekly (Scotsman, The tunnel, which runs from the Victoria Embankment to Southampton Row, i,s 1100 yards long, and it is proposed to deepen it throughout from 3 to sft., giving it a minimum height of Rift. Gin., and thus ‘allowing, double-decker tram ears id negotiate its Twenty-six thousand pounds ImVe been .set- aside for their conversion of single into doubledeckers. Over 200.001) tramway passengers use the subway daily, and when the new service is in operation traffic exports of the London County Council estimate a net financial 'advantage of £12,000 a year. The work will take nearly two years to complete. The L.C.C. Tramways Committee is to examine the possibilities of allowing motor cars to pass through the new tunnel. At present it is exclusive to trams.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 3
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