Parliamentary Papers, Volume 41H.M. Stationery Office, 1842 |
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Accident occurring Appendix Arbroath axles Birmingham Board of Trade Bolton and Preston bye-laws Cause of Accident coach Committee of Privy Council for Trade Croydon Croydon Railway danger diameter Directors Ditto driver duty Eastern Counties Eastern Counties Railway embankment engine-driver extra engine fare feet four-wheeled engines G. R. Porter gatekeepers gates Glasgow GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY guard Hartlepool highways inches instant instructions Junction Laing level crossings locomotive engines London and Brighton Lords Lordships luggage Manchester miles per hour Name of Person Nature of Accident Nature of Injury North Midland North Midland Railway North Union Railway opening passing penalty not exceeding Person Injured plate-layer Privy Council public traffic Railway Company regulations RETURN of Accident Returns relating road Secretary servants Sheffield signal Sir F Sir Frederic Smith six-wheeled engines speed station Stockton superintendent tender foremost third class passengers ticket tons tunnel waggons weight Western Railway دو دو دو
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Page 100 - Wills," it is enacted, that no will shall be valid unless it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence, and by his direction...
Page xviii - Company in that behalf authorised, or in anywise relating thereto respectively; that is to say, " no passenger will be allowed to take his seat in or upon any of the company's carriages, or to travel therein upon the said railway, without having first booked his place and paid his fare.
Page 101 - ... shall not be exposed to any danger or damage by the passing of any carriages or engines along the said railroad...
Page 6 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade...
Page 254 - Every first-class passenger will be allowed 112 Ibs., and every second-class passenger 56 Ibs. of luggage, free of charge ; but the company will not be responsible for the care of the same unless booked and paid for accordingly.
Page 19 - ... of that produced on a horizontal plane at the previous velocity, the power being lost or absorbed in the inverse ratio in which it requires to be augmented, precisely at the moment when it is most important to obtain an increase. This subject has been ably treated in the Second Report of the Irish Railway Commissioners (see notes D and E, pp. 104 to 110, which are understood to be from the pen of Professor Barlow.) It is there...
Page xviii - Administration by travelling or attempting to travel upon a railway without having previously paid his fare ; or by riding in or upon a carriage of a higher class than that for which he shall have paid his fare ; or by continuing his journey in or upon any of the carriages...
Page 280 - The Midland Counties' Eailway Companion," published in 1840, which has already been referred to,* it is set forth that "passengers at the road stations will only be booked conditionally — that is to say, in case there shall be room in the train for which they are booked...
Page 274 - ... unload or take off any part of his lading or goods at any other place than shall be mentioned in such account, with intent to avoid the payment of any tolls payable in respect thereof, he shall for every such offence forfeit to the company a sum not exceeding...
Page 19 - ... expended during the transit of a given load, over a given distance, is the same, whatever the speed ; and at the same time a saving in the loss from leakage is effected also in proportion to speed. On a line worked by locomotive engines it has been clearly proved that an increase in the velocity of the train from 25 to 30 miles per hour, is attended with a loss of more than half the effective power of the engine. This disadvantage is also attended by another serious one when an engine has to...