. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . PLATE XI. 1. SNOW PLOUGH, HIGHLAND RAILWAY. 2 PERMANENT-WAY MEN. HOW A RAILWAY IS WORKED loi discovered a second buried train, when lie put hisleg down the smoke-stack of the engine. Snow-drifts are removed by means of a specially-constructed plough, that is sometimes pushed byas many as five locomotives (Plate XI), carrying astajff of, perhaps, fifty men. Between Alnwick andGateshead a snow party had a most Arctic experi-ence. They cleared the track of snow, fourteenfeet deep, for several miles, and then stuck fast ina cutting. They were there f
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . PLATE XI. 1. SNOW PLOUGH, HIGHLAND RAILWAY. 2 PERMANENT-WAY MEN. HOW A RAILWAY IS WORKED loi discovered a second buried train, when lie put hisleg down the smoke-stack of the engine. Snow-drifts are removed by means of a specially-constructed plough, that is sometimes pushed byas many as five locomotives (Plate XI), carrying astajff of, perhaps, fifty men. Between Alnwick andGateshead a snow party had a most Arctic experi-ence. They cleared the track of snow, fourteenfeet deep, for several miles, and then stuck fast ina cutting. They were there for thirty-eight hourswithout food or drink—and now a snow party takescare to be amply provisioned before setting out onsuch a task. It is rather surprising to find that the GreatWestern Kailway, which is mainly a southernline, should suffer severely from snow; but ittraverses some very exposed tracts. In a snow-storm, in 1881, on this line there were no lessthan fifty-one passenger trains and thirteen goodssnowed up in Berks, and Wiltshire a
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