Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (Incorporated), Vol. 35: Thirty-Fifth Session, 1891-92 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (Incorporated), Vol. 35: Thirty-Fifth Session, 1891-92We began substantially, of course, under different conditions, and have gone on regularly improving, increasing the weight Of rails from time to time to give them longer life, and putting the increased weight on the wearing surface so as to get the full value of it.The improvement in the manufacture of steel, and its production at a moderate price, has also enabled the railway companies without excessive cost to improve their lines and attain the high speed of train service which is now common on the principal railways in this country. Not only are passenger trains run at higher speed, but fish trains, dead meat trains, and long distance goods and mineral trains are run with greater expedition.For such a service not only is a good, sound road of the best class necessary, but the rolling stock requires to be of the best quality, and the locomotive of ample power, great progress has also been made in this respect. Locomotives are now built with boilers having much greater heating surface, and with higher pressure whether for the simple or compound. On some lines, both at home and abroad, the compound locomotive is used, principally in this country by the London and north-western on the West Coast route, and by the N orth-eastern Company on the East Coast.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.