A PRACTICAL TREATISE - ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND FORMATION OF RAILWAYS, SHOWING THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND EXPENSE OF EXCAVATING, HAULAGE, EMBANKING, AND PERMANENT WAYLAYING; Author of The Railway Calculator, or Engineers' and Contractors' SECOND EDITION, LONDON: JOHN WEALE, ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY; MDCCCXXXIX. 129442 MAY 21 1909 SSF D33 6397487 ERRATA. PAGE 89, commencement of line 5, (from bottom) b omitted. Page 161, lines 18, 19, for right side of the opposite drawing, read left side of the lower drawing. Page 170, column "36 feet," line 14 from bottom, for 2623, read 3623. UI interna сот subject-NAILWAYS, a meatum The WORK will be found devoid of all algebraical formulas; but it will illustrate familiarly the A 129442 MAY 21 1909 SSF •D33 6397487 INTRODUCTION. It is presumed that the following pages require a very brief preface. The writer would merely observe that, as the opinion of several judicious friends coincided with his own; namely, that a work of this nature was yet greatly wanted, and as he has enjoyed very considerable experience during the last ten years in the direction and execution of important railway-works; he has been induced to make the present attempt, with strong hopes of success and approbation. The object of the WORK is to give a practical exposition of that now popular and all-absorbing subject-RAILWAYS, a medium of internal communication which, with all its concomitants and appendages, the British Nation has brought so rapidly forward to their present comparative state of perfection. The WORK will be found devoid of all algebraical formulas; but it will illustrate familiarly the A |