A Chart and Description of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads

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Excerpt from A Chart and Description of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads: In Which Is Noted the Towns, Villages, Stations, Bridges, Viaducts, Tunnels, Cuttings, Embankments, Gradients, &C., , The Scenery and Its Natural History, and Other Objects Passed by This Line of RailwayLet us take an example of a railway, which we will suppose to be one hundred miles long, and on which coaches to travel nine miles an hour, and freight wagons to go three miles an hour, enter upon their journeys at both ends of the railway, after intervals of twelve hours only. The wagons in one direction must meet those of an Opposite direction at distances of sixteen and two thirds miles, from either end of the railway, after allowing twenty-six minutes for rest, feeding, or changing horses, at each interval. The coaches would meet the oppo site coaches mid way, and they would meet trains of wagons at the distance of twenty-five and seventy-five miles from either end of the railway. There would then be eight points of meeting on the hundred miles, at each of which a sideling, or passing place, must be provided, and it must be evident that if the carriages arrived within the pre scribed times, the passing would be effected with out the least diffi culty. Should a train of carriages arrive at a passing place before the prescribed time, it would only be necessary that they should wait for the Opposite train to arrive, when they would enter on the next stage of their journey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.