INDEX. 



Radial axle-boxes, 58 



Rails, 182 



Railway bills, 16 



Clauses Act, G 



fences, 14 



slope, 61, 66, 72 



Railways of different ranks, 318 



K;ui.p.s to platforms, 21 



Recommendations as to working of rail- 

 ways, 30 



Rectangular running-sheds, 289 



Reduced speed on curves, 50 



Refuge sidings, 31, 351 



Relative costs of narrow-gauge and light 

 railways, 41 



Renewal of under-line bridges, 151 



Repeater signal, 22, 334 



Requirements of Board of Trade, 18 



Retaining walls, 159 



Reverse curves, 51 



Roadside station, 253 



Rock foundations, 113 



Rocking-bar, 316 



Roof-principals, 264 



Roofs over roadside platforms, 272 



Rope- haulage, 49 



Route of railway, 1 



Royal assent, 16 



Runaway points, 233 



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Safety-points, 24, 319 



Sandy foundations, 113 



Scales for Parliamentary plans, fi, 16 



Scissors cross-over, 233 



Screw piles, 114 



Semaphore signals, 313 



Semi-circular running-sheds, 289 



Separate lines for through traffic, 358 



Service roads, 69 



Shafts in tunnels, 167 



Sheeting-piles, 127 



Side-cutting, 61 



Side recesses in tunnels, 176 



Siding*, 24 



Signal-cabins, 328 



Signal-detector, 315, 318 



Signals, 313 



at junctions, 20, 323 



Signals (requirements of), 20 

 Six-wheeled carriage, 54 

 Sleepers, 209 

 Slip-points, 233 

 Slope of cutting, 61 



of embankment, 66 

 Slotted signals, 326 

 Snake-heads, 184 

 Soft deep bog, 70 

 Soiling earthwork, 66 

 Sorting-sidings, 285 

 Span and headway of P. R. bridges, 10 

 Spans of large railway bridges, 158 

 Spikes, 222 

 Spirals, 35 

 Spoil-bank, 60 

 Sprags, 46 

 Square crossing, 233 

 Standing orders, 4, 6 

 Starting-signal, 18, 314 

 Station buildings, 260 



roofs, 264 



Stations, 248 



near viaducts, 24 



on gradients, 26 



Steel and wrought-iron sleepers, 217 



rails, 190 



Steps for side-lying ground, 70 



of staircases, 26 



Stone sleepers, 210 

 Strain on steel, 27 



on wrought-iron, 27 



Suburban traffic, 352 

 Subways, 26 



Super-elevation of rail, 230 

 Supervision of tunnel-work, 176 

 Swing-bridges, 83, 87 

 Switches or points, 235 

 Syphon culverts, 79 



Tamping-bar, 239 

 Terminal station, 253 

 Tests for steel rails, 194 

 Three-throw switches, 233 

 Thrust-girders for retaining walk, 161 

 Tie-bars, 224 

 Timber bridges, 95 

 Timbering of tunnels, 170 

 Timber-pile foundations, 114 

 Time for construction, 18 



