Manual of Railway Engineering in Ireland: With Appendices, Including the Irish Tramways Acts

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Edward Ponsonby, 1861 - 111 pagina's
 

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Pagina 2 - ... shall be added of any building, yard, courtyard, or land within the curtilage of any building, or of any ground cultivated as a garden...
Pagina 28 - ... in gradients of an inclination not exceeding one in a hundred, to any extent not exceeding ten feet per mile, or to any further extent which shall be certified by the Board of Trade to be consistent with the public safety, and not prejudicial to the public interest...
Pagina 86 - So that one method gives an error in excess, the other an error on the other side, and one error is double the amount of the other. There is another way of expressing the true content ; it is : To the sum of the end areas, add four times the middle area, and multiply the sum by one-sixth of the length. In cuttings it will constantly occur that the contents are not, as I have above supposed, all rock or all clay, but will be partly rock and partly clay.
Pagina 4 - Plan shall be added of any Building, Yard, CourtYard or Land within the curtilage of any Building, or of any Ground cultivated as a Garden...
Pagina 103 - ... position for it to pass ; that it shall not be possible for him to exhibit at the same moment any two signals that can lead to a collision between two trains ; and that, after having lowered...
Pagina 109 - In case the application is made at the spring assizes, the ' *pring advertisements required by the first section of the said act shall be published in the months of November or December, or either of them, immediately preceding, and the deposits required by the second and fourth sections of the said act shall be made on or before the first and twelfth day of December respectively, and the notices required by the third section shall be given on or before the second day of December.
Pagina 102 - ... less than three times the permanent load due to the weight of the superstructure, added to six times the greatest moving load that can be brought upon it.
Pagina 2 - November [often an immense struggle up till last moment to get this done] ; petitions for act stating particulars to be lodged at the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons on or before 23d December ; on or before same date, copy of proposed bill to be lodged with Board of Trade ; on or before...
Pagina 76 - In a wrought-iron or steel bridge the greatest load which can be brought upon it, added to the weight of the super-structure, should not produce a greater strain on any part of the material than five tons, where wrought-iron is used, or six tons and a half, where steel is employed, per square inch.
Pagina 72 - ... counterforts are built at the back of the abutments, and are usually plumb at the back. Sometimes they are raked off in a line with the haunching, and sometimes are stopped lower down. Their object is to help the abutment to withstand the thrust of the arch. There is no use in founding counterforts...

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