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Page viii
... four passengers only . Everything was found to have been in the first instance made too light and too slight . The prize ' Rocket , ' which weighed only 4tons when loaded with its coke and water , was found quite unsuited for drawing ...
... four passengers only . Everything was found to have been in the first instance made too light and too slight . The prize ' Rocket , ' which weighed only 4tons when loaded with its coke and water , was found quite unsuited for drawing ...
Page ix
... four to six miles an hour . On the Stockton and Darlington line the speed was increased to about ten miles an hour ; and on the Liverpool and Manchester line the first passenger trains were run at the average speed of seventeen miles an ...
... four to six miles an hour . On the Stockton and Darlington line the speed was increased to about ten miles an hour ; and on the Liverpool and Manchester line the first passenger trains were run at the average speed of seventeen miles an ...
Page xi
... four miles of railway must have been covered by running trains during every second all the year round . To perform this service , there were , in 1873 , 11,255 locomotives at work in the United Kingdom , consuming about four million ...
... four miles of railway must have been covered by running trains during every second all the year round . To perform this service , there were , in 1873 , 11,255 locomotives at work in the United Kingdom , consuming about four million ...
Page xiv
... four times a day . No less than 23 passenger - trains stop at or pass this station in the 24 hours - an amount of traffic requiring not only the most perfect arrangements on the part of the management , but the utmost vigilance and ...
... four times a day . No less than 23 passenger - trains stop at or pass this station in the 24 hours - an amount of traffic requiring not only the most perfect arrangements on the part of the management , but the utmost vigilance and ...
Page xvii
... four troughs about 130,000 gallons of water are scooped up daily . Wherever railways have been made , new towns have sprung up , and old towns and cities been quickened into new life . When the first English lines were projected , great ...
... four troughs about 130,000 gallons of water are scooped up daily . Wherever railways have been made , new towns have sprung up , and old towns and cities been quickened into new life . When the first English lines were projected , great ...
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Lives of the Engineers George and Robert Stephenson: The Locomotive Samuel Smiles, Jr No preview available - 2015 |
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