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Stokers and pokers

Chapter 41: INDEX.
By Sir Francis Bond Head
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The author offers a series of practical sketches explaining the construction, maintenance, and daily workings of a major railway, combining technical description with on-site observation. He examines permanent way upkeep, locomotive and carriage design, train operations at principal termini, and the organization of goods, parcels, and lost-luggage services. Detailed accounts of locomotive depots and railway towns illustrate workforce and infrastructure, while chapters on the electric telegraph and the railway clearing-house reveal communication and financial coordination. The book closes with rules, regulations, and moral reflections on the challenges of operating large-scale rail transport.

INDEX.

Section page
1. General Regulations 161
2. Signals 162
Police Signals 162
Stationary Signals 163
Semaphore Signals—Day 164
Semaphore Signals—Night 165
Junction Signals 165
Auxiliary Signals 165
Train Signals 166
Special Signals—Newton Junction 167
3. Fog Signals 168
4. Engine men 169
 Special Regulations:—
London and Birmingham Section 176
Grand Junction Section 176
Manchester and Birmingham Section 177
Trent Valley Section 178
Bolton Branch 178
5. Guards 179
6. Breaksmen 184
7. Station Masters and Clerks 186
8. Inspectors of Police 191
9. Police 191
10. Gatemen at Level Crossings 195
11. Ballast Engines and Plate-Layers 196
12. Tunnel Regulations, Lime-Street 199
Ditto,       Wapping 201
13. Bankriders 203
14. Bye Laws 204
15. Acts of Parliament 206

At a Meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the 11th of September, 1847, it was

Ordered,

That the following code of Rules and Regulations be, and the same is hereby approved and adopted for the guidance and instruction of the Officers and Men in the service of the London and North-Western Railway Company, and that all former Rules and Regulations inconsistent with the same be cancelled.

Ordered,

That every person in the service do keep a copy of these Regulations on his person while on duty, under a penalty of five shillings for neglect of the same.

By order of the Board of Directors.
MARK HUISH,
General Manager,
London and North-Western Railway.