The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 409
rails, the whole length of theline, and sufficiently deep to cover the longitudinal valve o, which is some inches below the surface of the water ; b h, shows one of the transverse slidesor stops, which is received within a rectangular bo.^ or trunk c c, and in orderto form a vacuum within the… … arriving, so as to allow sufficient time for the water to run out of the pipe,which after the train has arrived is to be pumped back again to refill the pipe.It will appear evident that as the longitudinal valve is raised, the water con-tained in the cistern or trough will flow into the pipe, and…
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