INDEX 



Accommodation works, 12 



Air-lock, 119 



Air-pump, 120 



Allowances for sinkage on embankments, 



70 

 Alteration of gradients, 12 



of roads, 6, 10 



American hand-brake, 46 

 Analysis of steel rails, 193 

 Approach roads to stations, 249 

 Arch culverts, 7G 

 Automatical gate-alarm, 336 



B 



Ballast, 225 



Bascule bridge, 85 



Battering-rule, 72 



Bearing-weights of various materials, 



129 



Beater, 239 

 Bench marks, 66 

 Bissell truck, 58 

 Block crossing, cast steel, 235 



telegraph signalling, 18, 338 

 Board of Trade requirements, 18 

 Bog-cutting, 65 

 Bogie carriage, 54 



engine, 56, 306 



Booking-hall, 249, 260 

 Book of reference, 8 

 Borings for foundations, 129 



for tunnel work, 164 



Borrowed earthwork, 61 

 Bottom-pitching, 225 

 Bracket signals, 20, 322 

 Brake-power on gradients, 45 



Brakes for goods waggons, 46 

 Brick-well foundations, 123 

 Bridges, 79 



over public roads, 10 



Broken stone ballast, 225 

 Buffer-stops, 282 

 Bull-head rail, 191 







Cab-rank, 251 



Caisson foundations, 121 



Cant of rail, 230 



Carriage accommodation, 353 



bogie, 54 



dock, 282 



traverser, 292 



Cast-iron column piers, 97 



in bridges, 27 



saddles, 224 

 sleepers, 214 



Iram-platee, 184 



tube tunnels, 179 



water-tanks, 299 



Catch-siding, 26 

 Centre line of railway, 32 

 Chairs, 206 

 Channelling ballast, 231 



Check- rails on sharp curves, 29, 5 1 



Cinder ballast, 227 



Circular running-shed, 289 



Clay puddle, 127 



Clocks at stations, 26 



Coal-drops, 282 



Coffer-dams, 127 



Comparison of bull-head and flange rails, 



199 



Compound rail*, 190 

 Concrete foundations, 114 

 Continuous brakes, 30 



