Cassell’s Railways of the World Volume 1 By Fred Talbot
Hard Cover
Copyright? Printed in Great Britain
360 Pages with numerous illustrations in photogravure & half tone
Contents:
AERIAL RAILWAY, THE WORLD'S LONGEST 328
ATLANTIC " TO THE " PACIFIC," FROM THE 241
ATLANTIC," THE STORY OF THE 203
BOOSTER," THE LOCOMOTIVE 84
BUILDING AND REBUILDING OF THE KINZUA VIADUCT, THE 175
COMING OF THE " TEN-WHEELER," THE 182
CONSOLIDATION," THE STORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 288
CROOKEDEST RAILWAY IN THE WORLD, THE 65
CROSSING THE ANDES BY RAIL . 294
DEVELOPMENT OF THE " DECAPOD," THE 343
DOMINION OF CANADA, How THE RAILWAY CREATED THE 275, 350
DRIVING AND DOUBLING THE WORLD'S LONGEST TUNNEL 126
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE CLASSIFICATION 112, 261
FAMILY OF LOCOMOTIVES, THE . 21, 48, 151
FAMOUS EXPRESSES :
I. BRITISH 92
2. CANADIAN . 210
3. SOUTH AFRICAN 271
4. UNITED STATES 315
FEDERATED MALAY STATES, THE RAILWAY WEB OF THE 250
FIGHTING THE SAND-SEAS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER . 103
FIRING THE LOCOMOTIVE MECHANICALLY 218
FROM THE " ATLANTIC " TO THE " PACIFIC " 241
GREAT NORTH ROAD OF STEEL, THE . 3, 58
HEISLER GEARED LOCOMOTIVE, THE . 304
HOW THE RAILWAY CREATED THE DOMINION OF CANADA 275, 350
INDIA, THE RAILWAY INVASION OF 72, 140
KINZUA VIADUCT, THE BUILDING AND REBUILDING OF THE 175
List of Plates
LAST LINK IN THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY OF EUROPE, THE 191
LOCOMOTIVE " BOOSTER," THE 84
MOVING 35,000 TONS OF COAL A DAY 163
RAILWAY INVASION OF INDIA, THE 72, 140
RAILWAY WEB OF THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES, THE 250
SAND-SEAS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, FIGHTING THE . 103
SINGLE-LINE RAILWAYS 231
STORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 'CONSOLIDATION," THE 288
STORY OF THE " ATLANTIC," THE 203
" TEN-WHEELER," THE COMING OF THE 182
TRAIN OPERATION BY WIRELESS 15
WHERE THE SNOW-PLOUGH WORKS IN SUMMER 32
WIRELESS, TRAIN OPERATION BY 15
WORLD'S LONGEST AERIAL RAILWAY, THE 328
WORLD'S LONGEST TUNNEL, DRIVING AND DOUBLING THE 126
A GIANT EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC . Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
How THE GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY CROSSES THE JUMNA RIVER BETWEEN
CAWNPORE AND BANDA • 79
GIANT ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE OF THE SWISS FEDERAL RAILWAYS HAULING THE
SIMPLON EXPRESS 115
THE ISELLE PORTAL OF THE SIMPLON TUNNEL . 129
GIGANTIC COAL TRAIN ON THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY 167
TYPICAL VIADUCT ON THE GREEK LONGITUDINAL RAILWAY • 199
CARRYING THE RAILWAY THROUGH THE MALAY FOREST . • 255
LANDSLIDE ON THE VIACHA-LA PAZ SECTION OF THE ANTOFAGASTA RAILWAY 299
CANADIAN NATIONAL BRIDGE AT CISCO IN THE FRASER RIVER CANYON 351
SINCE the volumes of "Railway Wonders of the World " were published ten years ago the girdling of the globe with steelways has continued apace; while the railway situation, as a whole, has undergone a dramatic transformation. The gridirons of steel, enmeshing the various countries, were conceived, planned, financed and built by many hands. A score of miles of line were contrived here to satisfy local needs; a hundred miles were built there to connect two trading centres; while a thousand miles were laid somewhere else to constitute the great artery of communication between isolated communities. Each was elaborated as a separate entity to have an independent existence.
The days of frantic railway-building, however, by self-contained private interests have passed for ever. The great systems have extended their tentacles on every hand to absorb the lesser roads in their advance. Consolidation and amalgamation are in active progress, and by the absorption of these fragmentary steel-ways, "zones of influence " are being created. The grouping process is bringing about the extinction of many lines, the names of which were household words; their achievements in settlement and the general up-building of the community are in danger of becoming obscured, if not actually lost to memory.
The general acceptance of the policy of "community of interests " is not only destroying individuality, but is slowing down new construction in the more settled territories. Even when we turn to the lesser developed parts of the world we find that the railway invasion is being conducted according to carefully prepared programmes. Haphazard speculative construction is giving way to rigid system : the interests of the whole are being considered rather than the requirements of the few. While this tendency is depriving railway conquest of its picturesqueness it is bestowing manifold advantages in other directions. It is contributing to the wider recognition of standardization in all matters pertaining to the layout and operation of the world’s railways.
