Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management, Prospects and Relations ...Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1850 - 460 páginas |
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1st class 3d class accidents according actual already amount analysis appears arriving ascertain augmented average average number Belgian railways booked calculation carriages carried causes cent charge chargeable coaches column communication companies compared complete consisting constructed continued cost daily diminished direction distance dividing drawn effect ending ending June engines entire establishment estimate expenses expressed extent give given greater head horses hour importance increased independent length less lighted lines load locomotive London manner means miles movement moving nearly necessary objects observed obtained operation parcels pass passenger passenger traffic practical present produced profits proportion quantity rails railway ratio receipts render reports require respectively road share speed stations steam supply suppose tariff tons total mileage traffic trains transport traveled twelve United various vehicles wagons weight wire York
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Página 42 - ... overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter? The only mending it receives is tumbling in some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner.
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Página 42 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Página 279 - ... during the night. The vehicle is perfectly lighted and warmed. The seats are cushioned; and their backs, consisting of a simple padded board, about six inches broad, are so supported that the passenger may at his pleasure turn them either way, so as to turn his face or his back to the engine. For the convenience of ladies who travel unaccompanied by gentlemen, or who otherwise desire to be apart, a small room, appropriately furnished, is sometimes attached at the end of the carriage, admission...
Referencias a este libro
The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina Allen W. Trelease Vista de fragmentos - 1991 |
Measurement, Quantification, and Economic Analysis: Numeracy in Economics Ingrid Hahne Rima Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |