The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-18
The New Electric Road
is Being 2 ushed to
Completion.
STATION CORNER
BROAD AND L AuJREL
Gould Line, When Operated I'd
the Bay, Will Give Richmond
the Advantages Of a Deep
Sea Harbor and
Low Freight
Rates.

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Tho Richmond and Chesapeake Bay
Railway Company has practically CONS
pleted arrangements for work to begin
on the Richmond terminal and the Via
duct. which will carry the rails from
Brook Turnpike to Laurel and Broad
Streets, where handsome station will
be built. b "
It will be two stories in height, with
waiting rooms on the ground floor and 81
equipped with electric elevators to lit RI
passengers to the second floor, which will IS
be on the level OF the car shed. & II
The building will front on Broad Street /:
81 feet 11a inches, directly opposite Laurel +
Street. 80 that three car lines will pass Il
the doors-the Laurel Street, Broad Street 4
and Broad and Main Street lines. &
Mr.. Gould has not yet decided upon the
architectural plan of the station or OF
the terminal sheds, but it Is thought that
he will have the plans in readiness by
next month, when he returns from
Europe. & q s
One OF the two houses at Laurel ard !.
Broad Streets purchased b to provide u s.
terminal site has already been pulle.s
down and through the opening can tbe {
seen the long, straight line down which
the viaduct Of the Ashland branch xiii
be constructed.
AA4AS 81 SAAC lily
Leaving the Laurel and Broad Street
station the tracks will run in a straight
line north to the north side OF Leigh 4
Street; then on q curve OF 500 feet radius
to Moore Street; then across the Old
sBrnuer. Bissell and Valentine properties.
purchased by the Richmond and Chesa-
3peake Railway Company, TO the Brook
Turnpike. which is entered Just opposite
the Union Colored College.
oyn .rtC taYsy no
Laurel Street station to the Ashland
station will be II $40 miles. which Will
be run on regular schedule, ii, twenty
SIX minutes; and hon. specie + Sc dts.a: I'M
TWENTY-FIVE minutes. IS IS
~. The highest grade on the route Is H.
per cent. and that only In one place; the
average grade being less than 1-a OF
per cent. s. Az K
The company has purchased 1872 acres
( OF land in securing the right of way
h $50 acres in the country and In Ashland
and 12 acres in the city OF Richmond.
b Colonel Burgwyn. chief engineer OF I
the Richmond md Chesapeake Railway
said on yesterday that 225, 0OO cubic yards
3 OF earth would be handled in cut and
8flll' between Richmond and Ashland and +
I that the entire cost OF the IA $40 miles
of road with equipment !, would be little "a
less than half a million OF dollars.
He also stated that the new route was
straighter and at lower grade than that
operated by the Washing ton- uthern
gRailwyl Company.
In Operation By August.
It Is thought that the Ashland branch
will be in operation byi August. The
route from Ashland to Chesapeake Bay
has been surveyed and work will begin
at once.
Mr.. Northrup. who has charge OF Mr..
Gould's interests In Virginia. when asked
where the road would strike the bay. said
that 10 one knew except Mr.. Gould and
that ne had not yet definitely determined
the exact location. 5Is VA
ut must be at a point where there is \
a good hnrbor and the road must run
through a productive. section OF tho
State. That is all I can say at this
time.
Mr.. Northrup pointed out the extras
ordinary benefits that would accrue to
Richmond on account Of the new road
E to Chesapeake Bay, which, he said, would
enable the Richmond merchants to obs
tain the trade which is now held by Z
Baltimore. 81
It8would practically, he said, In concllL
sion. give Richmond d deep sea harbor
and would therefore give the merchants
minimum rates on all kinds Of mel chan-s
4 disc.