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CLARK AND WEBB’S BRAKE. (From Engineering 1878)
In our number of the 18th ult. we gave a two-page engraving showing the application of the Clark and Webb brake to a guard’s van on the London and North-Western Railway, while with our present number we give another two-page engraving showing the brake gear us applied to one of the now six-wheeled carriages on the same line. The Clark chain brake has already been fully dealt with in our pages, and we do not pro-pose here to discuss either its me..
EXPRESS PASSENGER ENGINE, NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.
The Hawick and Border Union Railway, uniting Carlisle with Edinburgh and Glasgow, constitutes one of the heaviest roads in the world worked by high speed passenger traffic, as will be seen from the sections on page 4. One incline of 1 in 70 is, in round numbers, seven miles long without a break worth mentioning; another of nearly eight miles rises at the rate of 1 in 75; a third incline equally steep is two miles long. It will be understood that to work th..
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