Image from page 287 of "Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration" (1883)
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Title: Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration
Authors: Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886
Subjects: Railroads -- History Railroads -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Bemrose & sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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WATER CRANE. We may here mention that a writer in a German engineeringjournal contrasts the behaviour of different animals towards rail-ways and steam machinery. The ox stands composedly on therails without having any idea of the danger that threatens him ;dogs run among the wheels of a departing train without sufferingany injury ; and birds seem to have a peculiar delight in thesteam engine. Larks will build their nests and rear their youngunder the switches of a railway over which heavy trains are con-stantly rolling, and swallows make their homes in engine houses.A fox-terrier named Pincher, at Hawkesbury station, on theCoventry and Nuneaton Railway, for a long time distinguishedhimself by ringing the bell on the approach of stopping trains,much to the passengers amusement. One day, after performingthis feat, he ran from the signal-box on to the line, and was cutto pieces. OUR [RON ROADS.
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POIN I S AS THEY WERE. At all stations, intermediate or terminal, ample arrangementshave to be made SO that trains, whether passenger or goods, may stand, or run,or cross over. Theold way in whichcrossing was effectedwas homely enough,and such points were usedindicated as arein theengraving. Thesehave long sincebeen superseded by points proper, of excellent construction, temper, and efficiency;and crossings and sidings are now sometimes multiplied intoextraordinary number and intricacy. The first principle to beobserved is to have, on the main lines, no facing points, exceptat junctions. If a train has to be moved from adown to an up line, it must not be done directly.Let a be the down, and b the up rails. If it isnecessary for an engine or for carriages to beremoved from the one set of rails to the other,it must be done by the following means : Theengine must be brought along the down rails tillit has passed the points at e; the points mustthen be altered, and the engine being revers
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Image from page 287 of "Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration" (1883)
Identifier: ourironroads00will
Title: Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration
Authors: Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886
Subjects: Railroads -- History Railroads -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Bemrose & sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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WATER CRANE. We may here mention that a writer in a German engineeringjournal contrasts the behaviour of different animals towards rail-ways and steam machinery. The ox stands composedly on therails without having any idea of the danger that threatens him ;dogs run among the wheels of a departing train without sufferingany injury ; and birds seem to have a peculiar delight in thesteam engine. Larks will build their nests and rear their youngunder the switches of a railway over which heavy trains are con-stantly rolling, and swallows make their homes in engine houses.A fox-terrier named Pincher, at Hawkesbury station, on theCoventry and Nuneaton Railway, for a long time distinguishedhimself by ringing the bell on the approach of stopping trains,much to the passengers amusement. One day, after performingthis feat, he ran from the signal-box on to the line, and was cutto pieces. OUR [RON ROADS.
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POIN I S AS THEY WERE. At all stations, intermediate or terminal, ample arrangementshave to be made SO that trains, whether passenger or goods, may stand, or run,or cross over. Theold way in whichcrossing was effectedwas homely enough,and such points were usedindicated as arein theengraving. Thesehave long sincebeen superseded by points proper, of excellent construction, temper, and efficiency;and crossings and sidings are now sometimes multiplied intoextraordinary number and intricacy. The first principle to beobserved is to have, on the main lines, no facing points, exceptat junctions. If a train has to be moved from adown to an up line, it must not be done directly.Let a be the down, and b the up rails. If it isnecessary for an engine or for carriages to beremoved from the one set of rails to the other,it must be done by the following means : Theengine must be brought along the down rails tillit has passed the points at e; the points mustthen be altered, and the engine being revers
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