CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



PACK 



Location of a line of railway Government regulations Questions for con- 

 sideration in connection with gauge, gradients, and curves ... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Works of construction : Earthworks, Culverts, Bridges, Foundations, Screw 



piles, Cylinders, Caissons, Retaining walls, and Tunnels ... 60 



CHAPTER III. 



Permanent way Rails Sleepers Fastenings and Permanent-way laying . 182 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Stations : Station Buildings, Roofs, Lines, and Sidings .... 248 



CHAPTER V. 



Sorting-sidings Turn-tables Traversers Water- Tanks and Water-Columns 285 



CHAPTER VI. 



Comparative Weights of some Types of Modern Locomotives . . . 304 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Signals Interlocking Block Telegraph and Electric Train Staff Instruments 313 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Railways of different ranks Progressive improvements Growing tendency 

 for increased speeds, with corresponding increase in weight of permanent 

 way and rolling-stock Electricity as a motive-power .... 348 



INDEX ,,,......,,,. 361 



