Section 73.—RAIL AND TRAM ROADS.
[1271]. Square bar rails.
[1272]. L-iron tram road; often made of cast-iron with the joints dove-tailed together.
[1273]. T-iron tram road.
[1274]. Tram road, with flanged plates for ordinary vehicles.
[1275]. Tram road, with one channel plate and one flat plate.
[1276]. Bridge rail.
[1277]. Bulb-head flanged rail.
[1278]. Double headed rail.
[1279]. “Barlow” rail.
[1280]. Bulb rail.
[1281]. Flush grooved tramway rail. See [Nos. 1839-1841].
[1282]. Rolled joist rail.
[1283]. Bulb-iron rail.
[1284]. Edge’s patent perforated rail and toothed wheel.
Many forms of combined chair and sleeper are manufactured in wrought iron and steel.
[1285]. Left-hand switch.
[1286]. Shunting carriage, for transverse shunting; carries a short section of the main road and runs across it on independent rails laid on a lower level; often used instead of a turntable for shunting.
[1287]. Tramway switch.
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[1288]. Right and left-hand switch and crossing, showing arrangement of guard-rails.
[1289]. Flat bar on edge rail.
See [Section 99] for other sections of rails.