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ME. Wn-UAM FAIKBAIRN ON THE 



Experiments made on the Acceington Incline, ttith 

 Goods and Passenger Trains, from the 4th Fe»- 



RUARY, 1850, TO THE 2nD OF MaT INCLUSIVE. 



TABLE I. 



ascent of merchandise trains up tue accrington incline. 



Here the resistance of gravitation upon the mean rise of 

 the three gradients, 1 in 41-6, is 53'87 lbs. per ton. This, 

 added to 25 lbs., which we have already determined as the 

 amount of resistance upon a perfectly horizontal plane, 



