The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 367
as many teaming places as the breadth of the embankmentwill allow : a horse being employed to draw the empty wagons into a sidmg.until a full set is empty, and to run the full wagons out of the full siding tothe tip head. I have not seen any plan of Grahamslcys machine, exceptingthe account given… … in front, which is perpendicular and supported on two trucks with ironwheels, is provided with a screw B, to raise or lower the cross rail c, to suitthe inequalities of the ground. The four balks D are in the direction of therailway; one end of the balks rests upon the brackets E and the cross rail…
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