A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia britannica, with additional details
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Word Count
105,500 words, Guess
Page Count
422 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7116832M
- OCLC Control Number4722546
- OCLC Control Numberpracticaltreatis00leco
- Library of Congress Control Number06027114
Classifications
- LCCTF144 .L46
Description
This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s. Chapter headings are: -Preliminary observations – arrangements before commencing the works. -Preparation of working drawings, and specifications for contracts. -Mails, carriages, waggons, horse-boxes, etc. -Buildings at stations, and apparatus. -Duties of Engine-men, and necessary regulations along the line. -Description of engines, and methods of working them. -Annual expenses of railways. -Great western railway reports. -System of direction and management. -History of locomotive engines. -Explanation of the plates. -List of railways, when Act was passed, and amount of money raised, or authorized to be raised.
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Genres
- Early works to 1850.
Other Editions
- A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the article "Railways" in the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia britannica, with additional details
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