Railway Construction

by William Hemingway Mills

• A

• Accommodation works, [12]
• Air-lock, [119]
• Air-pump, [120]
• Allowances for sinkage on embankments, [70]
• Alteration of gradients, [12]
  • of roads, [6], [10]
• American hand-brake, [46]
• Analysis of steel rails, [193]
• Approach roads to stations, [249]
• Arch culverts, [76]
• Automatical gate-alarm, [336]

• B

• Ballast, [225]
• Bascule bridge, [85]
• Battering-rule, [72]
• Bearing-weights of various materials, [129]
• Beater, [239]
• Bench marks, [66]
• Bissell truck, [58]
• Block crossing, cast steel, [235]
  • telegraph signalling, [18], [338]
• Board of Trade requirements, [18]
• Bog-cutting, [65]
• Bogie carriage, [54]
  • engine, [56], [306]
• Booking-hall, [249], [260]
• Book of reference, [8]
• Borings for foundations, [129]
  • for tunnel work, [164]
• Borrowed earthwork, [61]
• Bottom-pitching, [225]
• Bracket signals, [20], [322]
• Brake-power on gradients, [45]
• Brakes for goods waggons, [46]
• Brick-well foundations, [123]
• Bridges, [79]
  • over public roads, [10]
• Broken stone ballast, [225]
• Buffer-stops, [282]
• Bull-head rail, [191]

• C

• Cab-rank, [251]
• Caisson foundations, [121]
• Cant of rail, [230]
• Carriage accommodation, [353]
  • bogie, [54]
  • dock, [282]
  • traverser, [292]
• Cast-iron column piers, [97]
  • in bridges, [27]
  • saddles, [224]
  • sleepers, [214]
  • tram-plates, [184]
  • tube tunnels, [179]
  • water-tanks, [299]
• Catch-siding, [26]
• Centre line of railway, [32]
• Chairs, [206]
• Channelling ballast, [231]
• Check-rails on sharp curves, [29], [51]
• Cinder ballast, [227]
• Circular running-shed, [289]
• Clay puddle, [127]
• Clocks at stations, [26]
• Coal-drops, [282]
• Coffer-dams, [127]
• Comparison of bull-head and flange rails, [199]
• Compound rails, [190]
• Concrete foundations, [114]
• Continuous brakes, [30]
• Cost of permanent way, [241], [242]
• Covered-way tunnels, [178]
• Crab bolts, [223]
• Cranes, [280], [294]
• Creosoted sleepers, [211]
• Cross-over road, [233]
• Crossings made of rails, [237]
• Cross-sections, [33]
• Culverts and drains, [74]
• Curve alterations, [12]
• Curves, [49]
• Cutting rails on curves, [229]
• Cylinder foundations, [116]

• D

• Datum line, [8]
• Deck or floor of girder bridges, [133]
• Deposited plans, [4], [6]
• Depths of cuttings, [10]
• Derrick crane, [299]
• Detached lock, [332]
• Detonator or fog signals, [334]
• Detours on mountain-sides, [3]
• Deviation, limits of, [6]
  • of centre line, [12]
  • of levels, [12]
• Diagram sketches of bridges, [149]
• Diamond crossing, [237]
• Disc or ground signals, [322]
  • wheels, [48]
• Distant signal, [18], [314], [322]
• Diversion of roads, etc., [6]
• Dobbin-cart, [67]
• Dock platforms, [251]
• Double-line junction, [231]
  • slip points, [233]
• Dry stone backing, [162]

• E

• Earthworks, [60]
• Edge rails, [185]
• Electric motive-power, [355]
  • repeater, [22], [334]
  • train-staff instrument, [344]
• Embankment on bog, [71]
• Engine bogie, [53], [56], [304]
  • triangle, [290]
• Engine turntables, [27], [289]
• Enlargements on parliamentary plans, [16]
• Entrances to tunnels, [176]
• Estimate, [14]
• Expansion of rails, [228]
• Extract from Government Standing Orders and Regulations, [6]