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295 Lights of Engines, Distinctive Colours of, 157

Goods Station and Harbour, Construction and Working of, 194

Signals, 68

, System of Periodical, 17

Against Accidents to Railway Servants, 31

of Goods by Railway Companies, 267, 269

of Points and Signals, First Introduction of, 66

Description of Theory and Practice of, 71

by Means of Keys for Sidings, 76

, Value of the Railway System in the Event of, 283

Traffic, Mode of Conducting, at Holyhead, 194

Sleepers, Experimental Use of, 48

, Formation of, 53

, Interlocking, for Siding Points, 76

, Compulsory Purchase of, for making of Railways, 221

Legal Means for Acquiring, upon Reasonable Terms, 222

Extravagant Prices Formerly Paid for, 222

as Between Railway Companies and the Public, 267

Affecting; Railways; Manner in which it is Defined, 268

Hostile to Railway Companies, 225

of Railway Companies as Regards Carriage of Merchandise, 270

Indicators for Signals, 93

of Signal Lamps, 80

of Carriages by Gas, 136

Electricity, 139

, Projection of, 6

Opposition offered to, 7

Construction and Opening of, 8

Mode of Construction of, 8

Success of, 9

Type of Permanent way in Use upon, 42

(Edge Hill), Description Footner's Plan of Sorting and Marshalling Waggons, 172

, Conditions under which Railway Companies Carry, 272

Viaduct Washed Away by Flood in 1879, 62

Bars for Points, 75

Committee, Functions of, 12

Department; Societies for Benefit of Staff, 36

Engines (see Engines)

and Birmingham Railway, Projection and Construction of, 10

and North Western Railway, Various Companies Amalgamated under the Title of, 10

Statistics of, 11, 151

Property, Means Adopted for Tracing Owners of, 218

of Passengers, Law Affecting the Conveyance of, 277, 279

Question of What Constitates, 280

Application of "Carriers' Act "to conveyance of, 280

of a Railway, 12

General Principles laid down for, 21

of Goods Trains, Different Methods of. Employed, 170

Footner's Plan of "Gridiron" Sidings, 172

, the Laws Affecting the Carriage of, 268

(see also Goods)