TRACK TOPICS: A BOOK OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING FOR BOYS OF ALL AGES
Written by W.G. Chapman
Published by Patrick Stephens Limited
in 1971
ISBN: 0850590809
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- GWR (RAILWAYS)
- FACSIMILE
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Front cover
Contents
- ARRANGEMENT OF TALKS
- Talk Number One INTRODUCTORY
- Talk Number Two BRUNEL
- Talk Number Three THE BROAD GAUGE AND ITS FATE
- Talk Number Four WHARNCLIFFE VIADUCT, MAIDENHEAD BRIDGE, SONNING CUTTING, ETC
- Talk Number Five BOX TUNNEL
- Talk Number Six SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY - AN EXPERIMENT IN AIR PROPULSION
- Talk Number Seven ROYAL ALBERT BRIDGE, SALTASH (1)
- Talk Number Eight ROYAL ALBER BRIDGE, SALTASH (2)
- Talk Number Nine MODERN TRACK CONSTRUCTION
- Talk Number Ten MAINTENANCE OF TRACK
- Talk Number Eleven RELAYING OF TRACK
- Talk Number Twelve KEEPING THE TRACK LEEL (1) - CUTTINGS, EMBANKMENTS, TUNNELS, MINING SUBSIDENCES, ETC
- Talk Number Thirteen SEVERN TUNNEL (1)
- Talk Number Fourteen SEVERN TUNNEL (2)
- Talk Number Fifteen KEEPING THE TRACK LEVEL (2) - VIADUCTS
- Talk Number Sixteen GRADIENTS
- Talk Number Seventeen BRIDGES
- Talk Number Eighteen THE LOAD GAUGE AND EXCEPTIONAL LOADS
- Talk Number Nineteen RAILWAY BUILDINGS
- Talk Number Twenty CONCLUSION