. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. so THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [Fkbruary, moved on slide balks only. The operations for the removal northward were commenced at half-past 3 and at a few minutes after 8 it was safely landed on the new pier. The distance travelled was 20 feet 5 inches. On the 7th of August the building was drawn, in a similar manner, to a further distance northward of 8 feet 1 inch. The cradle was then shored with timber uprights, which allowed the railway and sheave
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. so THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [Fkbruary, moved on slide balks only. The operations for the removal northward were commenced at half-past 3 and at a few minutes after 8 it was safely landed on the new pier. The distance travelled was 20 feet 5 inches. On the 7th of August the building was drawn, in a similar manner, to a further distance northward of 8 feet 1 inch. The cradle was then shored with timber uprights, which allowed the railway and sheave balks to he withdrawn and reversed, for the purpose of taking tlie building to the east- ward. It is unnecessary to describe the process of placing these railway and sheave bulks in a direction bearing east and west, as it is merely a repetition of the same operations previously mentioned. Some diHiculty was experi- enced in taking the building round the curve, which was a portion of a circle of 64 7 feet radius. The rails on this curve were laid level, to the point at which the tangential lines of the rails commenced and from that point, to the new pier-head, they had a gradual inclination of 1 in about 225, making a total rise of 1 foot 7 inches above the original base of the building. This was accomplished, on the raised platform, by different heights of timber beams and on the unfi- nished part of the pier, between the platform and the coping, by large stones set in mortar, on which the railway beams were solidly fixed. The series of wedges in the sheave balks not oiily allowed them to be removed when required, but were otherwise of great use, for by slackening the wedges on the east side and tightening those on the west, the building was retained in a perpendicular position, when the rails were on the inclined plane. On one portion of the raised platform of the pier the pavement was com- pleted with large Yorkshire landings, from 6 inches to 8 inches in thickness. It was q
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