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Excerpt from Transactions for 1873
Which line he is the locomotive engineer. The Compan are twelve in number, and are arranged of the &mpany's line to Blackwall. They com rise turning, fitting, and 'nding shops, erecting shops, boiler ops. Carriage building an repairing shops, smiths' shops, and carriage and engine sheds. As the Company build nearly the whole of their engines and carriages, the members had a ood opportunity afforded them of acquainting themselves wi locomotive and carriage construction in all their departments. Various matters of interest were brought under notice in the shape of labour saving machines, of which there were several, amongst them being a machine for finishing the outside of engine 0 linders, and also for re-boring them without removing them m the engine. After quitting the shops we were shown a very inge nious arrangement of an electric brake attached to a train of carriages about to be worked experimentally on the North London Railway. As this brake Will be described in a second per on Continuous Railway Brakes, shortly to be read by Kit. Fox before our Society, 1 shall only briefly refer to it here. It consists of a very simple arrangement of powerful magnets excited by batteries carried in the carriages and in the guard's van, the ower produced being utilized in putting on the brakes. He war is applied instantaneously and with ease, and is taken 0 with ual rapidity. Should a train break in two the severance of e connection causes the brakes to be applied automatically both in the forward and rear portions of the train. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
