British Railways: Their Passenger Services: Rolling Stock, Locomotives, Gradients, and Express SpeedsCassell and Company, limited, 1893 - 252 pages Pattinson considers railway travelling in Britain from a statistical standpoint. Particulars of the commercial speed of all the leading British lines are given, followed by a description of the locomotives at present used in express traffic, the gradients over which they run, and the actual work they perform. |
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Page 25
... brakes and composed of solidly - built rolling stock . One would think that with such a train on such a road accident was a most remote contingency . And yet , mainly owing to the fact of the death of a signalman's child , and the ...
... brakes and composed of solidly - built rolling stock . One would think that with such a train on such a road accident was a most remote contingency . And yet , mainly owing to the fact of the death of a signalman's child , and the ...
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... brakes . The former , by various pre- arranged indications , give warning to the driver of the train of the state of the track in front of him . The latter enable him to reduce speed and to stop before any temporary obstruction to the ...
... brakes . The former , by various pre- arranged indications , give warning to the driver of the train of the state of the track in front of him . The latter enable him to reduce speed and to stop before any temporary obstruction to the ...
Page 27
... brakes before settling down to any particular variety . Even at the present time practice is by no means uniform - most of the English rolling stock being fitted with the Automatic Vacuum Brake , and most of the Scotch with the ...
... brakes before settling down to any particular variety . Even at the present time practice is by no means uniform - most of the English rolling stock being fitted with the Automatic Vacuum Brake , and most of the Scotch with the ...
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... brakes . Stimulated as they have been to some slight extent during the last few years by Board of Trade interference , the popular idea has arisen that the present satisfactory solution of the brake question is due to the action of the ...
... brakes . Stimulated as they have been to some slight extent during the last few years by Board of Trade interference , the popular idea has arisen that the present satisfactory solution of the brake question is due to the action of the ...
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... brakes , but by careful attention to details of equip- ment and conditions of working . Into these points we cannot here enter at length , but it may be taken for granted that the proper upkeep of the permanent way , the stability of ...
... brakes , but by careful attention to details of equip- ment and conditions of working . Into these points we cannot here enter at length , but it may be taken for granted that the proper upkeep of the permanent way , the stability of ...
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