Railways and Locomotives: Lectures Delivered at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham in 1877Longmans, Green and Company, 1882 - 427 pagina's |
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... speed of a well - appointed fast coach seemed perfection . But I would call your attention to the fact that the contrast between an average speed of nearly eleven miles an hour by the Quicksilver or any other of the favourite coaches of ...
... speed of a well - appointed fast coach seemed perfection . But I would call your attention to the fact that the contrast between an average speed of nearly eleven miles an hour by the Quicksilver or any other of the favourite coaches of ...
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... speeds and for considerable distances as cheap , if not cheaper , than carriage by railroad . But mere cheapness in the cost of the journey is not the only point to be considered . Regularity and certainty of despatch and delivery for ...
... speeds and for considerable distances as cheap , if not cheaper , than carriage by railroad . But mere cheapness in the cost of the journey is not the only point to be considered . Regularity and certainty of despatch and delivery for ...
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... speed are required either for pas- sengers or for perishable goods . Here the railway is all known means of locomotion pre - eminent . among Let us now consider the contrast between carriage by railway and carriage by road . Here ...
... speed are required either for pas- sengers or for perishable goods . Here the railway is all known means of locomotion pre - eminent . among Let us now consider the contrast between carriage by railway and carriage by road . Here ...
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... speed , water carriage can scarcely compete on anything like equal terms . Roads being cheap in first cost , may , with light traffic , pay better than a railway , and the circumstances of the traffic to be accommodated may not justify ...
... speed , water carriage can scarcely compete on anything like equal terms . Roads being cheap in first cost , may , with light traffic , pay better than a railway , and the circumstances of the traffic to be accommodated may not justify ...
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... speed . In this case almost any gradient against the load is prejudicial , and the only hope of carrying minerals over long distances in successful compe- tition ( so far as cost of transit is concerned ) with water carriage is to have ...
... speed . In this case almost any gradient against the load is prejudicial , and the only hope of carrying minerals over long distances in successful compe- tition ( so far as cost of transit is concerned ) with water carriage is to have ...
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