Railway Construction

by William Hemingway Mills

• F

• Facing-bolt lock, [315]
  • points, [20]
    • distance, [20]
  • point locks, [22]
• Fang clips, [224]
• Fastenings, [218]
• Fences enclosing line, [14], [73]
  • on bridges, [10]
  • on road approaches, [10]
• Fish bolts, [203], [220]
  • plates, [188], [203]
  • plate liners, [206]
• Flag signals, [313]
• Flag-top culverts, [76]
• Flange rail, [191]
• Floor or deck of girder bridges, [133]
• Floors for goods-sheds, [280]
• Flying junction, [231]
• Fog or detonator signals, [334]
• Footbridges, [26], [147], [149]
• Footings of foundations, [111]
• Foundations, [111]
• Four-line system, [351]

• G

• Gantry crane, [294]
• Gate-alarm, [336]
• Gates for level crossings, [74]
• Gauge of railways, [37], [38]
• Girder bridges, [110]
• Glazed roofs over platforms, [272]
• Goliath crane, [297]
• Goods-sheds, [273]
• Government grants to railways, [349]
  • Standing Orders, [4], [6]
• Gradient alterations, [12]
• Gradients, [42]
  • influencing loads, [43]
  • in tunnels, [166]
• Gravel ballast, [225]
  • foundations, [113]
• Guard-rails, [51]
• Guide-piles, [127]

• H

• Half-round sleepers, [211]
• Hand-brakes on trucks, [46]
• Headings in tunnels, [169]
• Headway and span of public-road bridges, [10]
• Height of platforms, [24]
• Heights of embankments, [10]
• High-level viaduct, [81], [83]
• High-speed running, [354]
• Home signals, [18], [314]
• Houses of labouring classes, [10]

• I

• Inclination of ramps, [26]
• Inside keys for chairs, [207]
• Inspection of new line, [18]
  • of tunnel work, [176]
• Interlocking of signals, [22], [314], [330]
• Iron-tube tunnels, [179]
• Island-platform station, [258]

• J