Second series of Railway practice: a collection of working plans and practical details of construction in the public works of the most celebrated engineers comprising roads, tramroads and railroads, bridges, aqueducts, viaducts, wharfs, warehouses, roofs, and sheds, canals, locks, sluices, & the various works on rivers, streams, &c., harbors, docks, piers and jetties, tunnels, cuttings and embankments, the several works connected with the drainage of marshes, marine sands, and the irrigation of land, water-works, gas-works, water-wheels, mills, engines, &c. &c.

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LIBRARY sen E

(_J«OVemBER l«45 .v)

Preface

The First Series of “Railway Practice” having been very favourably received by the profession, the publisher felt warranted in commencing a Second, but owing to untoward circumstances at the time was prevented proceeding with it ; the Editor has, therefore, been induced to produce the work at his own cost, rather than that it should have been left unfinished.

In presenting the present volume to the notice of the profession the Editor begs to remark, that it consists simply of a collection of “ Useful Examples in Civil Engineering,” the works of eminent men ; and all he has attempted has been to do justice to the various subjects, and to economise the time of the reader by making the illustrations as clear and explicit as possible ; throwing forward the most essential points in the details, and keeping all subordinate parts at a due distance ; and he considered it better to insert the specifications in their original form, than to give the matter in another shape, notwithstanding the appearance of conciseness which might be attained by the latter plan.

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Since the object of the work is merely to illustrate an important branch of the profession, and one little before pourtrayed, at least in a practical point of view, if he has succeeded in accomplishing this, and has moreover produced an useful book of reference for the student, he trusts it will not be found unacceptable.

To the numerous gentlemen who have so kindly assisted and cooperated with the Editor, comprising the engineers of the works represented— to each of those gentlemen individually he begs most respectfully to acknowledge his obligations, and to return his most grateful thanks.

12, South Square, Grav's-Inn, May 1st, 1840.