Stokers and Pokers, Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-HouseJohn Murray, 1861 - 224 páginas |
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Página 19
... inches in length , with two shafts of the extraordinary size of 60 feet in diameter , not only to give air and ventilation , but to admit light enough to enable the engine - driver in passing through it with a train to see the rails ...
... inches in length , with two shafts of the extraordinary size of 60 feet in diameter , not only to give air and ventilation , but to admit light enough to enable the engine - driver in passing through it with a train to see the rails ...
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... inch iron pipe ; and he thus instan- taneously produces in the little signal - office on the up - platform of Euston Station , where there is always a signal - man watching by night as well as by day , that loud CHAP . III.J 43 THE TRAINS .
... inch iron pipe ; and he thus instan- taneously produces in the little signal - office on the up - platform of Euston Station , where there is always a signal - man watching by night as well as by day , that loud CHAP . III.J 43 THE TRAINS .
Página 64
... inches of standing - room , remains upon its narrow platform , while his fireman , on about the same space , stands close beside him on the tender . We tried the position . Everything , however , proved to be so hard , excepting the ...
... inches of standing - room , remains upon its narrow platform , while his fireman , on about the same space , stands close beside him on the tender . We tried the position . Everything , however , proved to be so hard , excepting the ...
Página 67
... inch brick wall of the great building which con- tained it , to the terror of the superintendent and workmen , who expected every instant that the roof above their heads would fall in and extinguish them ! In consequence of the spindle ...
... inch brick wall of the great building which con- tained it , to the terror of the superintendent and workmen , who expected every instant that the roof above their heads would fall in and extinguish them ! In consequence of the spindle ...
Página 76
... inch thick , and capable of containing twenty - four of the largest - class engines . In the centre of this great brick building there is a turn - table 40 feet in diameter , from whence the engines radiate to their twenty - four stalls ...
... inch thick , and capable of containing twenty - four of the largest - class engines . In the centre of this great brick building there is a turn - table 40 feet in diameter , from whence the engines radiate to their twenty - four stalls ...
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Stokers and Pokers: Or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric ... Sir Francis Bond Head Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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