Modern Railway Signalling On British Railways

Author : Leonard P. Lewis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330241899
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical) written by Leonard P. Lewis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical) The signalling of railways has developed rapidly, more especially during comparatively recent years, until it is now one of the most important branches of the Engineering Department. On its efficiency depends to a large extent the safety of the travelling public. That the Board of Trade recognises this fact is evidenced by the strict supervision which it exercises over the signalling of railways and the careful inspection made of new signalling installations. The demand of the public for greater facilities both for travelling and for merchandise, involving a greater density of traffic, has added to the complexity of railway working, while the modern necessity for speed and for heavier and longer trains has still further increased the difficulties which beset the signal engineer in providing immunity from accident. The advance in signal engineering practice has, however, been commensurate with the advance of railways. The efficiency of the system adopted on British railways may be gauged by the few accidents which occur compared with the enormous number of train movements, and of these accidents the majority are due not so much to any deficiency in the system as to the personal equation, which unfortunately cannot be entirely eliminated. The present volume is designed to provide at a reasonable cost a full and at the same time concise description of British practice in mechanical railway signalling. 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.