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Book SynopsisThe engineer and technical writer Frederick Walter Simms (1803–65) ranked as a leading authority on tunnel construction for railways. This illustrated work, first published in 1844 and regarded as the standard textbook on the subject at the time, discusses the building of two tunnels for the South Eastern Railway.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Geological features of the South-Eastern Railway; 2. Description of the observatory; 3. Setting out the shafts; 4. Shaft sinking; 5. Shaft sinking (cont.); 6. Shaft sinking (concl.); 7. Driving the heads; 8. Form and dimension of Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels; 9. Construction of the tunnels; 10. Construction of the tunnels (cont.); 11. Construction of the tunnels (cont.); 12. Construction of the tunnels (concl.); 13. Tunnel entrances; 14. The centres of ordinary construction; 15. Miscellaneous; Appendix.
