The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-11
Call for Driveway on South
Side Over Tracks to
Baggage Rooms
DATE FOR HEARING
NOT DECIDED UPON
Frontage Of Station About 90 Feet,
Facing Westward = Corridor Runs
Over Tracks with Stairway Down to
Railroads and Highway Bridge.

While the date has not been set def
nitely for a hearing by the public ser
svicc commission relative to the propos-
ed union station in Brattleboro, April
IS is mentioned as a date which will
be generally acceptable to the numer-
Gus interests concerned The hearing
Nill be en- the matter of modifying the
order of the public service commission
so that the union station may be erect
ed but the building of an overpasS TO
abolish the grade crossing may be de
ferred. The commission will be ready
to hear the matter whenever the parties
reach, an agreement as TO what they
want. =
\ new plan for a union station, pre-
pared bv Che Central Vermont railroad,
| which Toes not contemplate an over
pass. has been found acceptable to
| most, If not all, of those interested. II
meets with the approval of the town
| authorities and, it is understood. of the
| railroad interests, at least i'll its general
| features.
| 1t calls for the construction of a
| tation fronting OH Vernon street with
| he vestlbule entrance facing the site
If the old Brattleboro House Tie floor
f'cvel of the station i above the rail
| Dad tracks amt stairs descend from
| his level to the railroad tracks below
| Freight elevators from the track level
| nto the two baggage rooms above. ONE
| for Central Vermont baggage and the
| other for Boston < Maine, are provided
| The real feature of this plan is the
orridor 10 feet in width and 10 feet
long which extends from about midway
| # the general waiting room eastwarc
4 HI
NJ down to Il point near the Vernon
nd IF the highway bridge over til,
| Connecticut. These stairs. on the mort
si,le Of the corridor permits Of pcdes
; Ran avoiding the grade crossing OF
| Bridge street in going to the island i
desired.
The frontage of the station calle,
Tor by the plan is about % feet. Di
rectlv inside the vcstibule is the gener
n whiting room approximately 30 fec
| wide. casterlv, and nearly twice rs long
south Of the waiting room and fronting
on Vernon street is small WAITING
{ Dom for women. with layatorv
just east of the general waiting rooi
IN the north side of the corridor i
he ticket office. about II by rs fee
md directly across the corridor fro1
he ticket Office is Il news stand. an
1
I | room, off which is the men : lavator,
Next east of the men 5 room. sout
II the corridor is the express Office an
| EAST Of that the two baggage rooms
| Stairs leading to the tracks below az
between the express office and the iirs
| baggage room. On the south side G
he station is a long. broad drive hui
, | rver the tracks. en- which teams il
| baggage and express may be driven.
The ticket office i especially we
lighted. as there are no rooms eth,
N the north or east sides and it Is we
! | provided with windows. rs is the peI
i, rial waiting room and the two small,
! Waiting rooms.
Another plan, provided by the Bostc
+ ( Maine railroad. calls for the lene1
: # the station TO be along Verne
'treet and no provision is made f,
= .rossino the tracks except at grade an
II t would be necessary. were that plf
y adopted. to cross At grade all tracks
! each train on the track farthc
y | from Vernon street. something that
! 9bviated by the arrangement of stat
* ard the layout of the station in +
Central Vermont plan.