New Britain herald., 1916-11-27
NEW HAVEN AND
 FOOTBALL CROWD
Trains Garry 66,2O2 to and From
 Yale-HarVard Game

In little over three hours Sat urday morning, the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad moved l 32,423 persons into the station at New Haven for the Yale-Harvard football game. In many respects this was the greatest performance in the history of the company While the number of passengers transported to New Haven Saturday morning was | 93S less than two years ago, yet the total movement into New Haven was considerably larger than it was for the previous Yale Harvard game in New Haven in 1914. This was due to the large number of persons who went to New Haven on Friday afternoon and evening. It is estimated that be- tween 5000 and 10,0Oo passengers were moved into New Haven Friday ana thls heavy movement necessitated elsHI extra sections of regular trains allu the transportation problem in VolVeo was consequently much more complex than any previous movement of the kind
 mere were 31 trains moved on the New York division into New Haven saturday morning and they carried lS,10S passengers. The average run ming time between New York and New Haven was 1 hour and g 1-2 H1lnuteS a remarkable achieVem considering the number of special trans. The Boston Shore line handled l5 trains with 5,330 passengers, the Boston Ar line trains with 1912 passengers, and the Springfield route
 
 seventy-onc Trains Going Out.
 Leaving New Haven after the game 33,779 passengers were handled in II trains from D. m. to midnight The total movement in and out of New Haven on Saturday was 142 trains and 66,2 passengers. As many per- sons went to New Haven on Friday preceding the game, so it was ex- pected that many would leave Sun- day and arrangements were made by the company to run several extra sections of regular trains to handle this Sunday crowd. A conservative estimate of the number of passen- gers moved by the New Haven from Friday to Sunday in connection with the football game is placed at 82,OOO passengers.
 Additional facilities in the way of tracks and platforms at the New IIa- ven station almost entirely relieved congestion, and passengers were en- abled to board the trains with greater ease and speed. There were 16 more trains run by the rompany than in 1914 ,and this, together with the greater seating capacity of the large number of steel cars purchased by the company during the past two
 
 ing of trains and insured considerably more comfortable service.
 One of the remarkable features of the New Haven record was the fact that while it took only 3 hours and 16 minutes to move 26 trains out of the Grand Central terminal, the oper- ation of the road between New York and New Haven was so efficient that these 26 trains together with other trains between Stamford and New Haven arrived in the New Haven sta ton within 3 hours and Il minutes. Tn the five hour period from 9:3O a. m. to 2:30 D. m. there was an average of 108 passengers detrained each minute at the New Haven station.
 Tn order to prepare for and handle this enormous extra business, the company had to move 34 special trains on preceding days to properly distribute the passenger equipment. A total of 612 cars, 175 Pullman and 437 coaches, over and above the nor mal requirements, were distributed to the principal stations for use as eX- tra cars in regular trains or to make up the special trains. There were 77 steam locomotives and 22 electric locomotives over and above the nor- nal requirem rents used to handle the additional business. many of which had to be withdrawn from freight service.