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298 Statistics of, 214

Methods and Machinery of, 216

As a Means of Tracing lost Property, 218

and Canal Traffic Act, 1873, Provisions of, 224

1888, Provisions of, 229

Commissioners' Court, Constitution of under Act of 1873, 224

Extension of Powers under Act of 1888, 229

Companies and their Relation to the Trade of the Country, 225

Engineers' Corps, Value of in Relation to Military Operations, 287

and Fares Committee, Functions of, 13

Mode of Calculating, 204

Effects of Competition on, 206

Conferences of Railway Companies to Agree Upon, 207

Demand that the State should be Empowered to Fix, 225

And Charges, Mode of fixing maxima under the Act of 1888, 230

from Passenger Traffic, 242, 250, 256

, Chain of Throughout Railway Service, 15

of Railway Companies as regards Carriage of Goods; Where they begin and End, 268

Of Companies for the Acts of their Servants, 279

"," Trial of, at Rainhill in 1829, 100

for Working Points, 80

Indicators (Electric), 94

Train, Description of Mode of Working, 168

and Regulations for Working Railways, 18

for working of Railways in time of war, 289

Carriages, 126, 248

Class, Abolition of on Some Railways, 125, 243

Colliery Tramway of 1776, 40

Indicators (Electric), 94

Of Slow Trains to allow Fast Trains to pass, 154

And Marshalling of Goods Trains, 170

Footner's Plan of Grid-iron Sidings, 172

, Concentration of, 67

Various Descriptions of, in Use, 68

Home, 68

Distant, 68

Starting, 68

Disc, 69

Making of, 78

Arrangements for Maintenance and Repair of, 81

Sighting of, 82

Signal Cabins and Apparatus, 69

Fitting Establishment at Crewe, 77

Lamps, Lighting of, 80

, Training and Examination of, 26

and Interlocking, System of, 64

Earlier Methods of, 65

Lines, Methods of Working, 160, 161, 162

, Description of, Now in Use, 46

Experimental Use of Iron and Steel, 48

Saloons, Advantages of, 126

for the Benefit of the Staff, 29

of Trains not the first Desideratum, 158

of Trains, Increase in, 245

, Number of Men Employed, 25

Training and Examination of, 26

Signals, 68

, The, Relations of to Railways in Different Countries, 220