The practical railway engineer. Examples of the mechanical and engineering operations and structures combined in the making of a railway
A technical manual of railway construction by British civil engineer G. Drysdale Dempsey, published by John Weale in London in 1847 for engineers, contractors and builders. Engraved plates give scaled elevations, plans and sections of station houses, bridge arches, rails and track fastenings, with fine hairline hatching, figure numbers and scale bars useful as line-drawing texture or diagram furniture.
