Liverpool and Manchester railway. Report to the directors on the comparative merits of loco-motive & fixed engines, as a moving power, Band 11829 |
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway: Report to the Directors On the Comparative ... James Walker,Robert Stephenson,Joseph Locke Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2022 |
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12 miles 52 tons annual cost applied ascending ascer Ashler average Bill boiler Brick Brick-work Brunton and Shields calculation Canal capital carriages Chat Moss coal Committee Company consideration construction consumption of fuel conveyance Darlington Deduct despatch Directors distance Ditto effect embankment employed empty waggons equal estimated expenditure expense experiments favour feet Fixed Engines friction gravity gross weight Hetton horses inch inclined planes increased John Rennie journey Killingworth Lane Bridge level plane line of road Liverpool and Manchester Liverpool to Manchester Liverpool Tunnel load Locomotive Engines machinery Manchester Railway merchandise miles an hour miles per hour nearly Parliament passengers passing penny performance Proprietors Rail-road rails Rainhill and Sutton Rastrick repairs require requisite resistance River Mersey Rocket Sankey Viaduct Sans Pareil speed Square station Stationary Engines Stationary system steam Stephenson stone stoppages Tender tons conveyed trade train travelling velocities Walker wheels whole yards
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Seite 8 - We, the undersigned merchants and brokers resident in the port of Liverpool, do hereby declare that we have for a long time past experienced great difficulty in obtaining vessels to convey goods from this place to Manchester, and that the delay is highly prejudicial to the trading and manufacturing interest at large.
Seite 64 - The engine to be delivered complete for trial, at the Liverpool end of the railway, not later than the 1st. of October next. " 8th. — The price of the engine which may be accepted, not to exceed ^550. delivered on the railway; and any engine not approved, to be taken back by the owner. " NB — The Railway Company will provide the engine tender with a supply of water and fuel for the experiment. The distance within the rails is four feet eight inches and a half.
Seite 7 - Notwithstanding [he says], all the accommodation the canals can offer, the delays are such that the spinners and dealers are frequently obliged to cart cotton on the public high road, a distance of 36 miles, for which they pay four times the price which would be charged by the Rail-road, and they are three times as long in getting it to hand.
Seite 14 - ... reasonable rates. To the landholders, also, in the vicinity of the line, the railroad offers important advantages in extensive markets for their mineral and agricultural produce, as well as in a facility of obtaining lime and manure at a cheap rate in return. Moreover, as a cheap and expeditious means of conveyance for travellers, the railway holds out the fair prospect of a public accommodation, the magnitude and importance of which cannot be immediately ascertained.
Seite 62 - ... miles an hour. It was determined that, to avoid confusion, each engine should be tried separately, and on different days. The day fixed for the competition was the 1st of October, but to allow sufficient time to get the locomotives into good working order, the directors extended it to the 6th. On the morning of the 6th, the ground at Rainhill presented a lively appearance, and there was as much excitement as if the St. Leger were about to be run. Many thousand spectators looked on, amongst...
Seite 73 - ... be on six wheels, unless the weight (as above) be reduced to four tons and a half, or under, in which case the boiler, &c.
Seite 67 - ... machine by eight o'clock in the morning, and the load assigned to it shall be three times the weight thereof. The water in the boiler shall be cold, and there shall be no fuel in the fireplace.
Seite 50 - At the upper or eastern end of the tunnel the traveller emerges into a spacious and noble area, 40 feet below the surface of the ground, cut out of the solid rock, and surmounted on every side by walls and battlements. From this area there returns a small tunnel, 290 yards in length, 15 feet wide, and 12 feet high, parallel with the large one, but inclining upwards in the opposite direction, and terminating in the company's premises in...
Seite 67 - Engines that carry their own fuel and water, shall be allowed a proportionate deduction from their load, according to the weight of the engine. The Engine, with the Carriages attached to it, shall be run by hand up to the...
Seite 13 - In the present state of trade and of commercial enterprise, despatch is no less essential than economy. Merchandise is frequently brought across the Atlantic from New York to Liverpool in twentyone days; while, owing to the various causes of delay above enumerated, goods have in some instances been longer on their passage from Liverpool to Manchester. But this reproach must not be perpetual. The advancement in mechanical science renders it unnecessary: the good sense of the community makes it impossible....