Safe Railway Working: A Treatise on Railway Accidents: Their Cause and Prevention, with a Description of Modern Appliances and SystemsC. Lockwood and Company, 1887 - 174 páginas |
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Página 14 - Make them of the same width ; though they may be a long way apart now, depend upon it, they will be joined together some day.
Página 69 - In case of accident to be instantaneously selfacting. c. The brakes to be put on and taken off (with facility) on the engine and every vehicle of a train. d. The brakes to be regularly used in daily working. e. The materials employed to be of a durable character, so as to be easily maintained and kept in order.
Página 33 - Number of cases in which any Passenger Line is connected with or crossed on the level by :— Number of cases in which the usual requirements of the Inspecting Officers of the Board of Trade have or have not been complied with in the following respects : 07 Concentration of Signal and Point Levers.
Página 97 - London and North Western. London and South Western. London, Brighton, and South Coast. London, Chatham, and Dover. London, Tilbury, and Southend.
Página 39 - Cancel bank engine in rear of train 12 Section clear, but station or junction blocked.... *13 Vehicles running away on right line 14 Opening of signal box 15 Testing block indicator and bells 16 Closing of signal box 17 Time signal 18...
Página 74 - The Westinghouse Automatic Brake. — The Westinghouse automatic brake is continuous throughout the train, and is operated by compressed air stored in a main reservoir on the engine, and in auxiliary reservoirs, of which one is placed upon the engine, tender, and each vehicle — all being connected by a pipe running the entire length of the train.
Página 2 - Altogether, the number of persons killed and injured on railways in the United Kingdom in the course of public traffic, during the Twelve Months ending 31st December 1897, as reported to the Board of Trade, was as follows : — i Of contractors' servants 18 were killed and 25 injured.
Página 166 - Fail ure or partial failure to act when required in case of an accident to a train, or a collision between trains being imminent. '2. Failure or partial failure to act under ordinary circumstances to stop a train when required.
Página 35 - EEADY signal on the bell, and the proper TRAIN APPROACHING dial signal. The signalman at B, after having ascertained that the line is clear for the train to run upon, must repeat the signals, and when he has received the necessary intimation from A that he has repeated them correctly, he must peg the needle to LINE CLEAR.