Railway ConstructionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1898 - 365 páginas |
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Página 30 - The brake must be capable of being applied to every vehicle of the train, whether carrying passengers or not...
Página 27 - Engine-turntables of sufficient diameter to enable the longest engines and tenders in use on the line to be turned without being uncoupled to be erected at terminal stations and at junctions and other places at which the engines require to be turned, except in cases of short lines not exceeding...
Página 29 - At all level crossings of public roads the gates to be so constructed that they may be closed either across the railway or across the road at each side of the crossing, and a lodge, or in the case of a station, a gate-keeper's box, to be provided, unless the gates are worked from a signal box.
Página 18 - Home signals and distant signals for each direction to be fixed at stations and junctions, with extra signals for such dock or bay lines as are used either for the arrival or for the departure of trains, and starting signals for each direction at all passenger stations which are also block posts. On passenger lines all cross-over roads and all connections for goods or mineral lines and sidings to be protected by home and distant signals...
Página 29 - With flat-bottom rails, when there are no chairs, or with bridge rails, the fastenings at the joints, and at some intermediate places, to consist of fang or other through-bolts; and such rails, on curves with radii of 15 chains or less, to be tied to gauge by iron or steel ties at suitable intervals.
Página 22 - ... and points. The length of the locking bars to exceed the greatest wheel-base between any two pairs of wheels of the vehicles in use on the line, and the stock rails to be tied to gauge with iron or steel ties. All points, whether facing or trailing, to be worked or bolted by rods, and not by wires, and to be fitted with two connecting rods.
Página 19 - At any intermediate siding connection upon a line worked under the train staff and ticket system., or under the electric staff or tablet system, where the points are locked by the staff or tablet. (c) At intermediate stations, which are not staff or tablet stations, upon a line worked under the...