The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 222
he iron cores do not unduly chillthe metal, and the average strength is retained. The iron used is chiefly Welsh Cold Blast. Mr. Cubitts object has been to lay a railway entirely upon transversesleepers, of such a form as would expose the largest amount of bearing sur-face for the least portion ot… … Rails, Chairs, and Sleepers, w ith the Cramp Gauge fixed.
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