. The railroad and engineering journal . side,according to their positions. and applied on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railroad inEngland, and the Midland Great Western in company has attempted to secure a simplification ofapparatus already in use, and has applied for that purposean arrangement which recalls the Remery-Gautier system,which we have already described (page 20, January num- 1^ •THE RAILROAD AND [february, l8 //■ P b\in which are made bevelled slots working against tlieblocks A, mounted on other bars, /« ///-, placed at right. ^^^^^.^\^^\^\^^\^^^^\^^.^m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
. The railroad and engineering journal . side,according to their positions. and applied on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railroad inEngland, and the Midland Great Western in company has attempted to secure a simplification ofapparatus already in use, and has applied for that purposean arrangement which recalls the Remery-Gautier system,which we have already described (page 20, January num- 1^ •THE RAILROAD AND [february, l8 //■ P b\in which are made bevelled slots working against tlieblocks A, mounted on other bars, /« ///-, placed at right. ^^^^^.^\^^\^\^^\^^^^\^^.^m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ angles to the first. We see that when we reverse the levercorresponding to the bar / this would be moved, and work-ing upon the block ./ would cause the bar in to be movedin such a way as to force the block A into the slot in thebar /*. the lever of which is by this action locked ; thenwe have / K : i* N. This apparatus can be used for a certain number ofcombinations, but in attempting to simplify it the directaction of the spring upon the lock has been completely dis-pensed with, which is really a step backward, and whichamounts to suppressing the only guarantee of securityagainst the trouble, which might result from an incom-plete or partial movement of the levers. We must tlieninquire whether the economy in first cost which is obtainedl)y this suppression is not more than overbalanced by thisdrawback. As soon as a small company like those inIreland reaches the necessity for an interlocking system, itwould be well for it to consider wheth
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