Author: William Peters (of Brighton.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Railway dangers; and how to avoid them
Author: William Peters (of Brighton.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Railway Research
Author: Krzysztof ZboinskiPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535122355
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book focuses on selected research problems of contemporary railways. The first chapter is devoted to the prediction of railways development in the nearest future. The second chapter discusses safety and security problems in general, precisely from the system point of view. In the third chapter, both the general approach and a particular case study of a critical incident with regard to railway safety are presented. In the fourth chapter, the question of railway infrastructure studies is presented, which is devoted to track superstructure. In the fifth chapter, the modern system for the technical condition monitoring of railway tracks is discussed. The compact on-board sensing device is presented. The last chapter focuses on modeling railway vehicle dynamics using numerical simulation, where the dynamical models are exploited.
Minutes of Evidence Given Before the Select Committee on Railway Bills, (group A), on the North Kent Lines, by the South-eastern, North Kent (Vignoles), and London and Croydon Railway Companies. 1845
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Railway BillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Early History of Railway Tunnels
Author: Hubert PragnellPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399049429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
To the early railway traveller, the prospect of travelling to places in hours rather than days hitherto was an inviting prospect, however a journey was not without its fears as well as excitement. To some, the prospect of travelling through a tunnel without carriage lighting, with smoke permeating the compartment and the confined noise was a horror of the new age. What might happen if we broke down or crashed into another train in the darkness? To others it was exciting, with the light from the footplate flickering against the tunnel walls or spotting the occasional glimpses of light from a ventilation shaft. To the directors of early railway companies, planning a route was governed by expense and the most direct way. Avoiding hills could add miles but tunnelling through them could involve vast expense as the Great Western Railway found at Box and the London and Birmingham at Kilsby. Creating a cutting as an alternative was also costly not only in labour and time, but also in compensation for landowners, who opposed railways on visual and social grounds having seen their land divided by canals. Construction involved millions of bricks or blocks of stone for sufficiently thick walls to withstand collapse. However, the entrance barely seen from the carriage window might be an impressive Italianate arch as at Primrose Hill, or a castellated portal worthy of the Middle Ages as at Bramhope. This book sets out to tell the story of tunnelling in Britain up to about 1870, when it was a question of burrowing through earth and rock with spade and explosive powder, with the constant danger of collapse or flooding leading to injury and death. It uses contemporary accounts, from the dangers of railway travel by Dickens to the excitement of being drawn through the Liverpool Wapping Tunnel by the young composer Mendelssoln. It includes descriptions from early railway company guide books, newspapers and diaries. It also includes numerous photographs and colored architectural elevations from railway archives.
Engineering News and American Railway Journal
Author: Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
Author: Stefan Fisher-HøyremPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031092856
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of religion and belief, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Stefan Fisher-Hyrem (PhD) is a historian and Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Agder, Norway.
A Digest of Railway Decisions
Author: Stewart RapaljePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Tramway and Railway World
Author: Railway Review
Author: The American and English Railroad Cases
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description