Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 103
rn is not in easy communication with anyof our coalfields, and hence it was that the com-pany decided to utilize some of the waste oilproducts that are left from the manufacture qioil gas, which was used by the Great Eastern fortrain lighting. The experiment was a success, anddoubtless the Great… … 1. WELWYN VIADUCT. 2. WOODHEAD TUNNEL. CHAPTER YI HOW A RAILWAY IS WORKED Part I IN the construction of a railway the exact routeis only decided after the most careful survey-ing of the country that the line is meant toserve. The surveyors seek for level tracts or theeasiest gradients that the…
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