The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-04-24
THE BRATTLEBORO DAILY REFORNTER, APRIL 1914

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town made contract for the elimination
| OF the crossing and the construction of a
passenger station, which contract, If car
RED out necessltates modification of the
| original. Subsequently the Vermont Val
| ley and Boston & Maine railroads built
| line from South Vernon through Hinsdale
/ to Brattleboro, to point just southerly
! of Bridge street, and in connection with
this work and pursuant to the terms of
| the contract said railroad companies have
SO altered the topography south of Bridge
street and westerly Of the present railroad |
station that it is impossible to carry out |
the original order of the commission filed |
September so, 1911"
| 18-Foot Clearance ae
The commission finds that the method
OF eliminating the grade crossing set
forth in the contract is better and more
practicable than that Incorporated in the
order of Sept. 30, 1911, consequently it
is ordered that the order of that date he
modified. The commission finds from the
: evidence and after examining the prem
Uses that the crossing is among the most
: dangerous the line of the Central Yer
mont railway, that public safety requires
: that it be eliminated and that clearance
? Of IS feet will best protect all persons
from danger or injury, having regard
both for railroad employees and for the
public using the highway and railroad sta
n ton to be constructed in accordance with
g this order"
: For the purposes indicated in the
e foregoing report" the order reads, the
/ Central Vermont Railway company Is
e hereby ordered to do the following work
$ in said town of Brattleboro and to relocate
E, Bridge street in said Brattleboro to con
IL en- ID
r ton" Then follows in detail the bounda-
\ ries, which are too complex for interest
u ing general reading.
Is In general it may be said that the north
boundary of Bridge street viii be about
y where it is now, bearing a little to the
81 north as it approaches the tracks. The
n present square corner at the junction of
:, Main street win be changed to a round
81 corner, beginning II feet north of the
O present north line of Bridge street and
=, running on a curve with a radius OF II
n feet.
The Main street bridge viii be raised
r by the town a little more than foot
IN and from that point Bridge street vii
TX run ON level easterly los feet. Thence
Ut it will ascend on a vertical curve 30 feet
$ thence ascending with a gradient OF ap
II proximately. three per cent for I'll 1eet
Y thence ascending on another Vcrtica
nj curve for 80 feet thence level on tn,
n overPass bridge II 6 feet; thence descend
r. ing with a vertical curve 80 feet; theme,
ne descending with a gradient Of five Per cen
al 10 the state line
va Pavement Provided.
ch \ retaining wall OF masonry or concrct
or shall be built on the northeriy side O
Ill Bridge street, to support an earth en-
banlment, and the street shall be can
ge- RED over the tracks by steel bridges, tn
ad side lines of the bridges to conform I
nd the side lines of Bridge street. TIL
re, fbridges shall be designed to carry. beside
ay their own weight live load OF 10
he pounds TO a square foot OF driveway an
lth sidewalk and 4 concentrated load OF ,
Is tons on four wheels speed five by
lch feet, to be supported by abutments an
piers OF concrete or stone masonry. It'll
the bridges shall have concrete slabs il
the flooring and shall be paved with suitab
at block paving.
nd Provision Is made for suitable sidewalk
paving and drainage, the relaying of Il
on Bridge street sewer and the relocatio
or, where necessary OF the gas and watt
md Ipipes and wires.
IAN \ suitable ramp shall be construct
ere east OF the railroad tracks and west
de the state line, extending from the owe
ed, pass to the level of the railroad yards,
the a five per cent grade
he As to the passenger station the ord
for reads: "A new passenger station, I
Idle, gether with suitable platforms and a
proaches. shall be built on the wcstel
side of the tracks of the Central Nermo
OF Railway company substantially OF the
as mansions and in the location shown
ted the blue print annexed to this order Sa
tiy station shall be built of 'Mounta