Joseph Locke, M.P., President of the Institution of Civil Engineers,' of England, in an address on this subject a short time ago, gave some highly interesting information, the pith of which we present ...

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GIVEN, a railway system which earns each year just about what it earned the year previous, while the capital charged against it is each year materially greater; how are dividends always to be paid at ...

hs2 soon fell behind schedule and ran well over budget. The original line has been drastically pruned—it will now run only from London to slightly north of Birmingham. Plans for hs3 have been shelved.

TO write a good book on the working and management of an English railway is no easy matter. The author of such a work must have an intimate knowledge of his subject, and be in a position to take one ...

IT is known that in the archives of various foreign countries there are documents of interest to students of the history of technology; but seldom is any of this material published. One such document, ...