Tramways, Their Construction and Working: Embracing a Comprehensive History of the System, with an Exhaustive Analysis of the Various Modes of Traction, Including Horse Power, Steam, Heated Water, and Compressed Air; a Description of the Varieties of Rolling Stock and Ample Details of Cost and Working Expenses, with Special Reference to the Tramways of the United Kingdom, Том 1C. Lockwood and Company, 1878 |
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13 inches amounts average axle-box axles bearing Birstal boiler bolt Bonawe quarries BRISTOL TRAMWAYS cast-iron cast-iron chairs cent centres constructed cost cross sleepers cubic feet cubic foot cylinders December 31 depth Dewsbury Ditto double line engine excavated fastened feet 8 inches flanges gauge GLASGOW CORPORATION gradients grooved rail grouted horses inch thick inches deep inches in diameter inches long inches wide iron joints Kincaid's laid length lineal yard load locomotive longitudinal sleepers macadam Merryweather & Sons Messrs mile open mile run miles per hour omnibus ordinary passengers pavement paving Pence Plate pounds per yard pressure quantity railway receipts reservoir resistance road rolling surface Scale Section of rail side single line Southport spikes square inch square yards staples steam steam-car steel STREET TRAMWAYS stroke temperature tie-bars timber tons traffic tram transverse sleepers tread Vale of Clyde vertical waggons weight wheels whilst wrought-iron
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Сторінка 420 - ... or of any part thereof, for the space of three calendar months (such discontinuance not being occasioned by circumstances beyond the control of such lessees, for which purpose the want of sufficient funds shall not be considered a circumstance beyond their control).
Сторінка 4 - I need not take time to relate,) the price of pigs became very low, and their works being of great extent, in order to keep the furnaces on, they thought it would be the best means of stocking their pigs, to lay them on the wooden railways, as it would help to pay the interest by reducing the repairs of the rails ; and if iron should take any sudden rise, there was nothing to do but to take them up, and send them away as pigs.
Сторінка 417 - ... a less space than nine feet six inches shall intervene between the outside of the footpath on either side of the road and the nearest rail of the tramway...
Сторінка 418 - If the works having been commenced are suspended without a reason sufficient in the opinion of the Board of Trade to warrant such suspension...
Сторінка 350 - Multiply the diameter of the driving-wheel, in inches, by the total equivalent tractive force at the rails, in pounds ; and divide the product by the square of the diameter of the cylinders, in inches, and by the length of stroke, in inches. The quotient is the effective mean pressure in pounds per square inch.
Сторінка 418 - ... powers given by the Provisional Order to the promoters for constructing such tramway, executing such works, or otherwise in relation thereto, shall cease to be exercised, except as to so much of the same as is then completed, unless the time be prolonged by the special direction of the Board of Trade ; and as to so much of the same as is then completed the Board of Trade may allow the said...
Сторінка 354 - L x 2; = 1-5708 <PL ................ ( a ) d = the diameter of the piston, in inches. L = the length of the stroke, in inches. D = the diameter of the driving-wheel, in feet.
Сторінка 2 - ... carrying flanged wheels, should be at the level of the carriage-way. Tramways, for facilitating heavy continuous traffic, were, as may be imagined, more desirable in the days of no roads, or bad roads, than they are even now. They were laid, more than two hundred years ago, in the mineral districts of England, when coal was rapidly supplanting wood as fuel, for the conveyance of coal to the sea-coast for shipment. The difficulty of keeping the roads in repair — leading from coal-mines — may...
Сторінка 418 - The board of trade on the application of any promoters empowered by a provisional order may from time to time revoke, amend, extend, or vary such provisional order by a further provisional order. Every application for such further provisional...
Сторінка 125 - J inch wide at the surface, deeply corrugated at the rate of 14 corrugations per foot of length. The surface of the tread is flat and inclined, so that at the centre of the rail it is £ inch higher than at the side. It is thus insured, as was remarked of Mr. Kincaid's Bristol rail, that car-wheels should take their bearing on the middle or centre line of the rail. In each 24-foot rail 18 holes are drilled in pairs at 3 feet distances apart, through which the rails are fastened to the chairs by 3...