 | William Laxton - 1865 - 484 Seiten
...consequence either of defects in the bearing rails or of failure in any part of the rolling stock. The safest portions of the proposed railway ought...the failure of its fastenings, and the only question to my mind is, whether it would not be desirable still further to extend its application to gradients... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1865 - 736 Seiten
...consequence, either of defects in the bearing-rails or of failure in any part of the rolling-stock. The safest portions of the proposed railway ought,...steeper than 1 in 25, the middle rail will be employed.' in in i ML:.' he says, • that Italian securities have fallen and are falling with a disheartening... | |
 | 1867 - 400 Seiten
...the present arrangements. . . . There is no difficulty in so applying and securing that middle-rail, and making it virtually one continuous bar, as to...failure of its fastenings ; and the only question to my mind is whether it would not be desirable still further to extend its application to gradients... | |
 | 1867 - 400 Seiten
...thu present arrangements. . . . There is no difficulty in so applying and securing that middle-rail, and making it virtually one continuous bar, as to...failure of its fastenings ; and the only question to my mind is whether it would not be desirable still further to extend'its application to gradients... | |
 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1868 - 568 Seiten
...consequence either of defects in the bearing rails or of failure in any part of the rolling stock. The safest portions of the proposed railway ought...the failure of its fastenings, and the only question to my mind is whether it would not be desirable still further to extend its application to gradients... | |
 | 1865 - 520 Seiten
...consequence either of defects in the bearing rails or of failure in any part of the rolling stock. The safest portions of the proposed railway ought,...the failure of its fastenings, and the only question to my mind is, whether it would not be desirable still further to extend its application to gradients... | |
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The safest portions of the proposed railway ought indeed, under proper management, to be those on which, the gradients being steeper than 1 in 25, the middle rail will be employed. There is no difficulty in so applying and securing that middle rail, and... 