Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 26Institution of Civil Engineers, 1867 - Civil engineering |
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Page 390 - The safest portions of the proposed railway ought indeed, under proper management, to be those on which, the gradients being steeper than 1 in 25, the middle rail will be employed. There is no difficulty in so applying and securing that middle rail, and making it virtually one continuous bar, as to preclude the possibility of accident from its weakness or from the failure of its fastenings, and the only question to my mind is, whether it would not be desirable still further to extend its application...