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Author: Richard Marion Parkinson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528366540
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Excerpt from Light Railway Construction This work is intended as a book of reference for the use of engineers in practice and their pupils and assistants. The Author, having himself experienced the want of a practical office manual, has endeavoured to provide a text-book which, though primarily intended for those engaged in constructing light railways, may be more or less helpful to all who are employed on public works, whatever may be their nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Richard Marion Parkinson
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344160233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: William Henry Cole
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332451275
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Excerpt from Light Railways at Home and Abroad Light railways postulate greater facilities for promotion, cheaper construction, simpler working, and more lenient conditions generally than are applied to ordinary or standard railways; but, as pointed out in Chapter I., light and standard railways only differ from each other in degree, and no sharp line can be drawn between them. We are all feeling our way in the matter Of light railways, and the treat ment of a subject which is more or less unformed and undefined presents peculiar difficulties. The late Mr Corrie L. Thompson's Catalogue of Books, Reports, Papers, and Articles relating to Light Railways, 1895, was a most useful guide to a literature which is necessarily scattered and incomplete. To sift this information, and to collect and arrange useful matter in a convenient and readable form was the result I aimed at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: William Hemingway Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332065684
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Excerpt from Railway Construction The construction and maintenance of a railway calls for the application of so many branches of engineering that several volumes would be required to do ample justice to a subject so comprehensive and ever-extending. To avoid attempting so wide a range, the object of the following pages has been to describe briefly some of the recognized leading features which regulate railway construction, and to assist the explanation with sketches of works selected from actual practice. Where the number of existing good examples is legion, it is somewhat difficult to make a choice for illustration, and the course adopted has been to select such samples of structures as appear best to elucidate in a simple manner the different types of work under consideration. In the drawings and diagrams many important minor details are necessarily omitted, partly to avoid complexity, but principally to leave more prominent the leading features of the particular piece of work referred to in the description. Some of the sketches of the large span bridges and large span roofs are only shown in outline; but, as their principal dimensions are given, a general idea can be obtained of their actual proportions. No allusion is made to the requisite strengths of the various structures described, nor to the necessary dimensions of the materials used in their construction, as this would necessitate the introduction of a vast amount of mathematical formulae which does not come under the province of the object in view, and which the engineer has already at command from his training and works of reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: L.S.S. O'Malley
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Excerpt from Howrah The deep channel alternates from left to right and vice cersa according to the windings of the river, except where deflected by the large tributaries which debouch into it at the southern limit of this district. Proceeding from Howrah Bridge, the deep channel runs on the Calcutta side in the Calcutta Reach past the Fort and Kidderpore to Garden Reach. At Rajganj, Opposite Hangman Point, it crosses over to the Howrah Side, and follows the Sankrail Reach as far as Melancholy (menikhali) Point. It then zigzags from left to right at each bend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: E. R. Salwey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266901501
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Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Excerpt from Light Railways as a Practical Means of Exploration A great portion of my professional career having been passed in the execution of public works where such railways as I shall describe form a prominent feature, and having been employed myself in their laying out and construction in countries to some extent remote from civilisation, and where the engineer is much thrown on his own and such native resources as he is able to obtain to carry out the work entrusted to his care, I have attempted to give my experience in this little book. My object, then, is to point out the advantage of constructing portable, light, and inexpensive narrow-gauge railways similar to such as I have laid out and constructed in some of the more unexplored parts of Brazil, not necessarily at first for the development of any particular commercial industry, but merely as a means, and, in my opinion, the best and most inexpensive means, of preliminary exploration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: John Charles Mackay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364056110
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Excerpt from Light Railways for the United Kingdom, India, and the Colonies: A Practical Handbook Setting Forth the Principles on Which Light Railways Should Be Constructed, Worked, and Financed The construction of Light Railways, as distinct from the Main - line standard, has not found much favour in this country, and such lines are only to be found in a few isolated instances. On the contrary, however, nearly every other nation has long ago found out their usefulness, and assistance from public funds has been largely given towards their construction. In Belgium alone there are upwards of 700 miles of Light Railways, With a capital of nearly sterling; While Hungary has also over 2300 miles, With a gross revenue of per annum. Saxony, Switzerland, Italy, and France have all their local railways and tramways, and in Germany the system has been so far developed that a Light Railway periodical has been in existence since 1874. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Alexander Ross
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428195397
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Excerpt from Light Railways; Conditions Affecting Their Construction and Working: A Paper, Read Before the Liverpool Engineering Society, 19th February, 1896 The standard gauge of this country has proved a wonderful happy medium, and, owing to the experts of this country having been employed in the introduction of railways on the Continent, it may be taken as the standard gauge of Europe. On ordinary ground where a railway can be constructed without any special difficulty, the cost between a 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge railway and that of the 4 ft. 8 in., or standard gauge, is only about 250 per mile, but when we come to mountainous countries, where a railway has to be made along hillsides with exceptionally sharp curves, and steep gradients, then, Of necessity, it must be of narrow gauge. It appears, therefore, that the only valid reasons for departing from the standard gauge of a country are, when developing a new country, when to attain a point, exceptionally sharp curves and steep gradients become a necessity, and when the railways are isolated and are a system by themselves, they may be to any gauge to suit the circumstances. There is every evidence that the traders, farmers, and all using railway wagons in this country, are in favour of having the standard gauge wagons that travel along the main lines of the country, in their yards and works, thereby avoiding transferring and second handling goods at the junction. It must follow then that the railways required are single lines of 4 ft. 85 in. Gauge, upon which will travel the wagons used on the trunk railways of the country; but not the engines, carriages, or any of the heavier plant of the truck lines. A special engine will be necessitated, with lighter weight on the driving axle, and special carriages, with the floor and foot-boards arranged so as to render platforms unnecessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: W. Davis Haskoll
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364313299
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Excerpt from Railway Construction, Vol. 1: From the Setting Out of the Centre Line to the Completion of the Works Tan title of this work will, I trust, sufficiently explain the object I have had in writing the following pages. They are the result, as regards both field and office work, of various notes, observations, and rules made and applied during a practice of many years in carrying out railway works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: R. Macdonald Stephenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781332010363
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Excerpt from Elementary and Practical Instructions on the Science of Railway Construction In the year 1850, Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, to whom India is so deeply indebted for the introduction of railway communication, under the Governor-General-ship of the late Earl of Dalhousie, presented gratuitously to the late Mr. John Weale, as marking his estimation of the "Rudimentary Series," the original treatise on the "Science of Railway Construction," of which a fourth edition, greatly enlarged, is now presented to the reader, with his approbation, kindly conceded to the publishers, under the editorship of Mr. Edward Nugent, C.E. In the second edition, published in 1861, much use was made of "American and European Railway Practice," by A. L. Holley, then just published at New York, one of the best practical books on the subject of Railway Construction, more particularly in all that relates to the Permanent Way. The work is divided into ten sections, the whole of which have been carefully revised and corrected. In the first, on Mensuration, and in the second, on Surveying, the solution of the problems has been greatly simplified, and concise useful additions have been made. The fourth division, on Railway Curves, has been entirely rewritten, and much useful matter introduced relating to turnouts, crossings, and vertical curves at junction of gradients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.