The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, Practically Described and Illustrated ... Second Edition, with Some Additional Useful PlatesJohn Weale, 1842 - 500 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
30 feet 9 inches Act of Parliament amounted Arbroath arches ascending average gross load average speed ballasting Birmingham booking-office brick bridges chairs coke compartments cost Croydon cubic yards curve depôt descending distance performed earthworks embankments engine-house enginemen Euston station feet 6 inches feet 9 feet in length feet wide fencing first-class first-class carriages four gauge gradients Grand Junction Grand Junction Railway height horse-box inches diameter inches long inches wide incline intermediate stations iron kyanized Leeds level plane Liverpool Liverpool and Manchester locomotive engines London and Birmingham main line Manchester Messrs miles an hour miles per hour minutes North Midland Railway North Union Railway number of passengers occupying Plate rails Railway Company rate of speed received the royal road royal assent second-class carriages side span Stephenson stone stoppages Street sup¹ feet Tayleur terminal terminal stations thence thickness third-class tons trains tunnel turn-tables viaduct wagons wheels whole length