Notes on military railway engineering, part I-(survey)

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Great Britain. War Office. Army Council, Author
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1940

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PUB-2020-28.3
Maker
Great Britain. War Office. Army Council
Description
Contents: Chapter I. Principles of railway survey and location -- General principles -- Reconnaissance -- Preliminary survey -- Paper location -- Rapid survey of base depot areas -- Use of air survey for railway purposes -- Chapter II. Location theory and practice -- Properties of simple curve -- Field location -- Compound and reverse curves -- Setting our curves without a theodolite -- Chapter III. Transition curves and superelevation -- Safe speed on curves -- Superevelation -- Transition curve theory -- Setting out transition curves -- Chapter IV. Plans, profile and earthwork calculations -- Plans and profiles -- Grading -- Earthwork quantities.
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Processed Material/Paper
Physical description
126 pages : plates, some folded ; 22 cm.
Other title
Military railway engineering part I (surveu)
Credit line
Great Britain. War Office. Army Council. 1940. Notes on military railway engineering, part I-(survey), PUB-2020-28.3. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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