Manual of Railway Engineering in Ireland

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The object of the following pages is, to afford to young Engineers a guide to practical work, and to all a handy book for reference. With a view to the former, I have gone into details, and mentioned trifling points, to a degree which many will think useless, and almost as if done with the object of increasing the number of pages but so far from that being my intention, I have done my best to bring the whole within as small a compass as pos sible. With a view to making it a book for reference, I have given abstracts of all which concerns the Engineer in the Standing Orders and Railways'' Clauses Act, and have introduced many other things, such as gradient tables (page etc.