The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 219
m 10 chains to 500.The greatest accuracy is required in taking the angle, as otherwisethe starting of the curve will be incorrect, and the curves in the centrewill shoot past each other. Where the angle of the two tangents approaches a right angle, itmay be advisable to work the ordinates as far as… … Having been led, by the objections attending the running of loco-motives backwards, or with their driving wheels in front, to considersome method of turning them and their trains morecfficienlly than thecommon turning-table, which only admits of one or two cars beingturned at a time, and having…
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