The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-24
SUBWAY TO Be
BUILT AT WHITE RIVER
Details OF Changes As Ordered by
Public Service issiOn-Sub.
way for Pedestrians Station
improvements.


has made it's report in connection
with the changes in the station and
track arrangements at White River
Junction. The report contains 20
closely written typewritten pages
and gives he details of the changes
and the reports of all the hearings
on the subject. A subway, to elm
mate the grade crossing, will be
constructed west of the station and
the tracks will be changed around.
The features of the changes are
as follows.
l. Only four tracks in the space
between the platform that is north
of the passenger station and the
Main street of said village.
2. The enlarged platform about
the station building.
8. The subway.
A.. The platform and baggage
room on the westerly side Of the
Central Vermont tracks.
u Auo iooL Co'erlnS Cue pldI-
form.
6. The fences
Z. Location of all tracks adjoin-
ing the station platform.
The cost is estimated at s51,317,
divided as follows:
Track changes on Passumpsic di-
vision, s1,519.
Track changes on Concord divls-
ion, s1,O1S.
Track changes on Central ver-
mont Railway, s9,35O.
Transfer platform and track
scales, s1,OSO
Moving freight house, ETC., 1880
Moving two sheds on Boston &
Maine land, 800.
Subway complete, s11,134.
Platform west of C. v. tracks
1856 SO. yds.), SAT-.
Platform east of c. v. tracks,
(5,067 So. yds.), $1,000.
Resetting old curbing (647 lineal
fee). s135.
New curbing (2,7OO lineal feet),
1880.
Fence. C2,1O0 lineal feet). $685.
Graveled driveway Q,OO0 So
yds) 800.
Covering for platforms (616O0 50.
ftD, 1854
New baggage room west of
tracks, $1,000
Planking between tracks, $3.50.
The following explains what the
changes are:
This plan provides one subway
for pedestrians only. 1t leaves the
present station building and the
baggage room as they now are. 1t
makes small changes in the Boston
&c Maine tracks, but makes an al
most complete revision Of the Cen
street on the north and "Coffs
Crossing" on the south. No mate
rial change has been made in the
amount of track room in any of the
yards. The Central Vermont Rail-
road is given a "two-end" yard,
with four through tracks west of
the station. The indicated track
changes result in widening and
lengthening the station platform,
thereby increases its area from
about $1,000 square feet to about
$500 square feet. The narrow
spaces of the platform about the
station are widened"
Relative to the change in the or
der of the commission relative to
the White River Junction case the
commission has the following to
say:
The information obtained at this
hearing, and a further careful in
vestigation of the situation at White
River Junction has led us to the
conclusion that all things consider
ed. the plan adopted by our orig
Ausil Nillu LdLlCu luc
Sinclair Plan" is not the best
method for eliminating the crossing
in question, and that we ought not
to order the adoption of that plan,
if We have jurisdiction, as we hold
we have, to order such changes In
the position and number of the
railroad tracks at this station, in
cluding changing the position of the
main lines of the two Railroad Com
panies, as are indicated in the order
following this report. If we have
not jurisdiction to do that, we find
that the Sinclair Plan is the best
solution-of the problem.
when we ordered the adoption of
this plan we were led to believe
that the installation thereof would