INDEX. 



363 



H 



Half-round sleepers, 211 

 Hand-brakes on trucks, 46 

 Headings in tunnels, 1G9 

 Headway and span of public -road 



bridges, 10 



Height of platforms, 24 

 Heights of embankments, 10 

 High-level viaduct, 81, 83 

 High-speed running, 354 

 Home signals, 18, 314 

 Houses of labouring classes, 10 



Inclination of ramps, 26 

 Inside keys for chairs, 207 

 Inspection of new line, 18 



of tunnel work, 176 



Interlocking of signals, 22, 314, 330 

 Iron-tube tunnels, 179 

 Island-platform station, 258 



Jack-arches of brickwork, 145 



of concrete, 139 



Jib crane, 296 

 Jim Crow, 239 

 Junction signals, 20, 323 

 with existing line, 6 



K 



Keys for chairs, 207 

 Kinsua Viaduct, 97 



Lavatories and conveniences, 260 



Laying permanent way, 225 



Level crossings, 10 



Life of steel rails, 193 



Lift-bridge, 87 



Light railways standard gauge, 41 



Limits of deviation, 6, 16 



Loa Viaduct, 102 



Loads of locomotive engines, 44 



Location of railway, 1 



Lock and block signals, 342, 353 



Longitudinal sleepers, 210 



Low viaduct arching, 129 

 Low-level viaduct, 81, 83 



M 



Made ground, 111 

 Marking steel rails, 195 

 Mechanical drills, 172 



gates, 335 



Mile-posts, 30 



N 



Names of stations, 24 

 Narrow-gauge railways, 40 

 Natural features of country, 1 



ground, 111 



Navigable rivers, 81 



O 



Occupation bridges, 110 

 Ordinary crossing, 235 

 Ordnance maps, 3 

 Outside guard-rails, 53 



keys for chairs, 207 



Over-line arch bridges, 103 



Parapets on viaducts, 28 

 Parliamentary estimate, 14 



plan and section, 6, 8 



Pedestal water-tanks, 302 

 Piers of cast iron, 97 



of masonry, 95 



of timber, 102 



of wrought-iron and steel, 97 



Pile foundations, 114 

 Plate-iron troughing, 143 

 Platform roofs, 264 

 Platforms (requirements of), 24 

 Plenum system of sinking, 119 

 Pneumatic process of sinking, 129 

 Points, or switches, 235 

 Portage viaduct, 102 

 Power to purchase land, 6 

 Preservation of timber, 211 

 Private-road bridges, 110 

 Provincial grants to railways, 349 

 Public-road bridges, 10, 103 

 level crossing, 8 



