Railway Appliances: A Description of Details of Railway Construction Subsequent to the Completion of the Earthworks and Structures, Including a Short Notice of Railway Rolling StockLongmans, Green and Company, 1887 - 301 pages |
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adopted angles arrangement axle axle-box ballast bell block system bogie booking-offices branch line break bridge buffers Cannon Street Station carriages carried centre chairs collision connected coupling cross sleepers curve danger disc distance distant signal draw-bar engine engine-driver fastening feet flanges flat-bottomed rail frame friction gauge given guard inches iron junction length level crossing line of rails loaded locking bar longitudinal main line miniature semaphore moved movement necessary needle ordinary pass passengers pivoted placed plates platform point lever point rail points and signals position railway companies Railway signals road roadside stations rolling stock screw semaphore arm semaphore signal shed shown in fig side signal box signal levers signalling stations signalman slot South Eastern Railway speaking instrument speed spindle spring catch-rod stock rail stop telegraph terminal stations timber tion tire traffic train trenail underframe vehicles vertical waggons weight Western Railway wheels width wire wrought iron
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Page 140 - A to B, B to c, c to D, and so on, and a staff like a policeman's truncheon is set apart as belonging to each district.