Tamping-bar, 239
Terminal station, 253
Tests for steel rails, 194
Three-throw switches, 233
Thrust-girders for retaining walls, 161
Tie-bars, 224
Timber bridges, 95
Timbering of tunnels, 170
Timber-pile foundations, 114
Time for construction, 18
Tip head, 67 365
Tip-waggon, 69
Tools for permanent way, 239
---- for tunnel-work, 172
Trailing-points, 20
Train-staff on single line, 342
Train-tickets, 343
Tramplates of cast-iron, 184
Tramway rails, 199
Trap-points, 319
Travelling-crane, 296
Traversing bridge, 85
Trimming slopes, 72
Trough girders, 135
Tunnel faces, or entrance, 176
---- headings, 169
---- sections, 176
---- shafts, 167
Tunnels, 6, 10, 162
---- composed of cast-iron segments, 179
---- drainage of, 166
---- through cities, 178
---- under rivers, 181
Turn-out, 233
Turntables, 287
U
Under-line arch bridges, 103, 129
V
Vacuum system of sinking, 119
Verandah on platform, 261
Viaduct parapets, 28
Viaducts of timber, 95
---- over rivers, 83
Viaducts over valleys, 91
---- to be shown on section, 10
W
Waggon turn-table, 292
Waiting-rooms, 251
Warehouse crane, 294
Water-column, 302
Water-jet piles, 116
Water-tables, 227
Water-tanks, 299
Wear of fish-plates, 205
Wear of steel rails, 193
Weeping-holes, 161, 174
Weights of locomotive engines, 304
Well foundations, 123
Wheel-base of engine bogie, 59
Wheel-guards on viaducts, 28
Widths of public-road bridges, 10
Winding engines, 185
Wind-pressure, 28
Wooden-centre wheels, 48
Wooden culverts, 76
---- screws, 223
---- tramway, 182
---- water-tanks, 301
Working plans and sections, 32
Wrought-iron column piers, 97
---- and steel sleepers, 217
---- piles, 116
---- rails, 186
---- water-tanks, 301
Z
Zigzags, 35
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