Manual of Railway Engineering for The Field and the Office.

Cotton, Charles P.:

Published by Dublin: William McGee, 1874.

About this Item

Second edition, Revised and Enlarged. 181 pp + 5 folding plates at rear. A book of reference covering the various routine steps of the preparation and letting of a Railway contract. Contents: Parliamentary Work - (Standing Orders, Levelling, Correcting Plans in the Field and Office, Plotting the Section, Lithographing, Referencing, Estimate), Contract Work - (Railways' Clauses Act, Field Work in preparing Contract, Staking out, Levelling, Plotting the Section, Survey, Drawings, Specification & Estimate). Appendix ( Laying Out Curves, Documents for Board of Trade, Memorandum of Important Requirements, Acquisition of Land, Sundry Acts of Parliament, Detailed Estimate of Bridge, Opposition on Standing Orders, Curved Plate Girders). Previous owner's bookplate on fep and inscription on ffep. Text clean except for intermittent underling of text in light pencil. Small stains at bottom corner of folding plates. Binding sound and tight. Spine backed in original cloth. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black lettering on front board. Corners bumped and rubbed. Edges of boards rubbed in spots. A few faded patches on boards. Overall condition VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manual of Railway Engineering for The Field and the Office.
• Publisher: Dublin: William McGee, 1874.
• Binding: Hardcover
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