Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911) (14758996025)

Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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hours20 mins. Stops at the three towns mentionedabsorb twenty minutes; deducting this time theactual running is 47;^ miles an hour over the verylong distance. There are nearly 1300 GreatNorthern locomotives, and some of their perform-ances are noted elsewhere ; for many years the8 feet singles vied with the broad - gauge Lord of the Isles type. The locomotive worksat Doncaster employ 4500 hands. The North-Eastern system extends from thenorthern limit of the Great Northern to Berwick ;the main line on the right throws off a network ofmetals to the towns on the north-east coast, andon the left is an equal ^web of branches, forming inall 1700 miles of track. The longest non-stop runis from Newcastle to Berwick and then by theNorth British line to Edinburgh, 124J miles in2 hours 20 mins. Plate XXII shows a NorthBritish express leaving Waverley Station, Edin-burgh, for the south. The Company owns 2000locomotives ; and in its own waggons carries morecoal and minerals than any other company.
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A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS i47 The North British is a Scottish line, withrunning powers over some English lines as farsouth as Hexham and Carlisle. The three partnersin the East Coast Eoute are joined by the MidlandRailway in the ownership of the Forth Bridge,which was opened by King Edward, when he wasPrince of Wales, in March, 1890. The Marchionessof Tweeddale drove the first engine over theestuary. The North British Company is respon-sible for the upkeep of the bridge, which is 1 mile1005 yards long exclusive of approaches; therails are 160 feet above the water. In this greatengineering work are over 54,000 tons of steel,40 miles of plates, and to secure the tubes alone5 million rivets were used. It takes three years topaint the bridge. Sixty men are constantlyemployed in keeping the structure and the perma-nent way in order. Though this Company owns1300 miles of track, it has only a hundredlocomotives. The West Coast Eoute to Scotland is the concern of the London and North-Western a