Railway Construction

by William Hemingway Mills

• Occupation bridges, [110]
• Ordinary crossing, [235]
• Ordnance maps, [3]
• Outside guard-rails, [53]
  • keys for chairs, [207]
• Over-line arch bridges, [103]

• P

• Parapets on viaducts, [28]
• Parliamentary estimate, [14]
  • plan and section, [6], [8]
• Pedestal water-tanks, [302]
• Piers of cast iron, [97]
  • of masonry, [95]
  • of timber, [102]
  • of wrought-iron and steel, [97]
• Pile foundations, [114]
• Plate-iron troughing, [143]
• Platform roofs, [264]
• Platforms (requirements of), [24]
• Plenum system of sinking, [119]
• Pneumatic process of sinking, [129]
• Points, or switches, [235]
• Portage viaduct, [102]
• Power to purchase land, [6]
• Preservation of timber, [211]
• Private-road bridges, [110]
• Provincial grants to railways, [349]
• Public-road bridges, [10], [103]
  • level crossing, [8]

• R

• Radial axle-boxes, [58]
• Rails, [182]
• Railway bills, [16]
  • Clauses Act, [6]
  • fences, [14]
  • slope, [61], [66], [72]
• Railways of different ranks, [348]
• Ramps to platforms, [24]
• Recommendations as to working of railways, [30]
• Rectangular running-sheds, [289]
• Reduced speed on curves, [50]
• Refuge sidings, [31], [351]
• Relative costs of narrow-gauge and light railways, [41]
• Renewal of under-line bridges, [151]
• Repeater signal, [22], [334]
• Requirements of Board of Trade, [18]
• Retaining walls, [159]
• Reverse curves, [51]
• Roadside station, [253]
• Rock foundations, [113]
• Rocking-bar, [316]
• Roof-principals, [264]
• Roofs over roadside platforms, [272]
• Rope-haulage, [49]
• Route of railway, [1]
• Royal assent, [16]
• Runaway points, [233]

• S

• Safety-points, [24], [319]
• Sandy foundations, [113]
• Scales for Parliamentary plans, [6], [16]
• Scissors cross-over, [233]
• Screw piles, [114]
• Semaphore signals, [313]
• Semi-circular running-sheds, [289]
• Separate lines for through traffic, [358]
• Service roads, [69]
• Shafts in tunnels, [167]
• Sheeting-piles, [127]
• Side-cutting, [61]
• Side recesses in tunnels, [176]
• Sidings, [24]
• Signal-cabins, [328]
• Signal-detector, [315], [318]
• Signals, [313]
  • at junctions, [20], [323]
• Signals (requirements of), [20]
• Six-wheeled carriage, [54]
• Sleepers, [209]
• Slip-points, [233]
• Slope of cutting, [61]
  • of embankment, [66]
• Slotted signals, [326]
• Snake-heads, [184]
• Soft deep bog, [70]
• Soiling earthwork, [66]
• Sorting-sidings, [285]
• Span and headway of P. R. bridges, [10]
• Spans of large railway bridges, [158]
• Spikes, [222]
• Spirals, [35]
• Spoil-bank, [60]
• Sprags, [46]
• Square crossing, [233]
• Standing orders, [4], [6]
• Starting-signal, [18], [314]
• Station buildings, [260]
  • roofs, [264]
• Stations, [248]
  • near viaducts, [24]
  • on gradients, [26]
• Steel and wrought-iron sleepers, [217]
  • rails, [190]
• Steps for side-lying ground, [70]
  • of staircases, [26]
• Stone sleepers, [210]
• Strain on steel, [27]
  • on wrought-iron, [27]
• Suburban traffic, [352]
• Subways, [26]
• Super-elevation of rail, [230]
• Supervision of tunnel-work, [176]
• Swing-bridges, [83], [87]
• Switches or points, [235]
• Syphon culverts, [79]

• T

• Tamping-bar, [239]
• Terminal station, [253]
• Tests for steel rails, [194]
• Three-throw switches, [233]
• Thrust-girders for retaining walls, [161]
• Tie-bars, [224]
• Timber bridges, [95]
• Timbering of tunnels, [170]
• Timber-pile foundations, [114]
• Time for construction, [18]
• Tip head, [67]
• Tip-waggon, [69]
• Tools for permanent way, [239]
  • for tunnel-work, [172]
• Trailing-points, [20]
• Train-staff on single line, [342]
• Train-tickets, [343]
• Tramplates of cast-iron, [184]
• Tramway rails, [199]
• Trap-points, [319]
• Travelling-crane, [296]
• Traversing bridge, [85]
• Trimming slopes, [72]
• Trough girders, [135]
• Tunnel faces, or entrance, [176]
  • headings, [169]
  • sections, [176]
  • shafts, [167]
• Tunnels, [6], [10], [162]
  • composed of cast-iron segments, [179]
  • drainage of, [166]
  • through cities, [178]
  • under rivers, [181]
• Turn-out, [233]
• Turntables, [287]