. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . e made here; and, in addition, there are inreadiness, in stores, lamps, gongs, and a hundred othermatters required in this department. Passing the painting shops we come to the smiths shops, wherethe iron work is done. Here all kinds of machines, for planing,boring, drilling, slotting, and shaping, are busily and noisily atwork. Groups of men are building locking frames in all stagesof progress, and containing perhaps 40, 50, or even 60 men are at the forges, and here have just been finished fiveor six hundred road
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . e made here; and, in addition, there are inreadiness, in stores, lamps, gongs, and a hundred othermatters required in this department. Passing the painting shops we come to the smiths shops, wherethe iron work is done. Here all kinds of machines, for planing,boring, drilling, slotting, and shaping, are busily and noisily atwork. Groups of men are building locking frames in all stagesof progress, and containing perhaps 40, 50, or even 60 men are at the forges, and here have just been finished fiveor six hundred road gauges for the gangers to measure andmaintain the precise gauge of the road. Here are anglepulleys innumerable : they are required to shift the direction ofthe wires or rods that pull over the signals or points ; here aresome new and handsome metal staffs for the use of drivers onsingle lines ; and near at hand are stores of galvanised wire—No. 8, nearly tV of an inch in diameter, made by the firm ofRichard Johnson, of Manchester, all for signalling MONSAL DALE FOOTHRIUOE AND VIADUCT. CHAPTER X. Station Masters.—Duties of Station Masters.—Working Single Line Duties. — Perplexities. — Names of Station Masters.—Hooking Clerks.—The Booking Office.—Thomas Edmondson.—Ticket-making Machines.—The Dating Press.—The Cash Counter.—TrainBooks.—Audit Office.—The Clearing House.—Experiences of BookingClerks. — Involuntary Travellers.—The Parcels Office.—All Sorts ofParcels.—Work of Parcel Clerks.—Signalmen.—Duties of Signalmen.—Guards.—Duties of Guards.—A Polite Guard.— Porters.—Complaintsabout Luggage.—A Valise of Dynamite.—Bag-gage Smashers and Bees.—What is Personal.•.:;/ y- Luggage ?— Checking the Baggage. BmafljJIggB^^Bq HE station master of a railway company^?TfB8^^^ occupies a position of responsibility. He■wfej ..](... is, it has been said, not only respectable, HEr^BpTitf but respected, know
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