Our Iron Roads: Their History, Construction and Social InfluencesIngram, Cooke, and Company, 1852 - 390 עמודים |
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accident advantages amount arches atmospheric railway average Awarded Bill Birmingham bridge Britannia Tubular Bridge broad gauge canals carriages Chat Moss coaches coal Committee communication completed considerable construction conveyance cost cross cutting difficulties distance ditto embankment employed engine-driver estimate Euston station excavation expense feet gauge George Stephenson gradients half holder horses hundred important inches incline inclined planes injured iron Junction killed Kilsby tunnel labour laid land learned friends length Liverpool and Manchester locomotive engines London and Birmingham London and North material means miles an hour narrow gauge navvies necessary North Western occasion Parliament passing proposed proprietors railroad rails Railway Companies received river road Robert Stephenson scheme side signal single journey ticket sleepers speed station steam Stephenson telegraph timber tion tons traffic travelling tube tunnel twenty viaduct wagons weight Western line Western Railway wheels wires yards