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Modern Railways by Brian Reed Boys' Power and Speed Library Dust Jacket 1950
Modern Railways by Brian Reed Boys Power and Speed Library
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1950 104 pages
World railways are used each year by tens of thousands of millions of persons. London's tubes alone carry 400 million people in twelve months. Yet sitting in a British railway train is safer than sitting in your own house; in an average year your chances of being killed on a railway journey are about one in 35 million. The railway combination is one of extreme capacity and extreme safety.
With perhaps forty trains an hour over the same track, with speeds up to the three-figure mark, and loads on occasion up to five figures in tons, the world's railways need to be, and are, run by a larger team of specialists than can be claimed by any other industry. Their jobs. and the results of them-be they general managers. traffic operators, civil or signal engineers. locomotive men, yardmasters or salesmen-are outlined In this book, which not only describes the details of how a railway is worked and why, but shows how each department plays its part in the efficient working of the whole complicated and fascinating organization.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERI WHAT A RAILWAY IS AND DOES I
CHAPTER II PLANNING A NEW RAILWAY6
CHAPTER III BUILDING A RAILWAYz 5
CHAPTER IV THE PERMANENT WAY30
CHAPTER V ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION40
CHAPTER VI MOTIVE POWER46
CHAPTER VII ROLLING STOCK5 2
CHAPTER VIII TRAFFIC OPERATION-TIMETABLES AND TRACKS64
CHAPTER IX TRAFFIC OPERATION-FREIGHT AND PASSENGER77
CHAPTER X TRAFFIC CONTROL90
CHAPTER XI SIGNALLING97
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