RAILWAY SIGNALS AND INTERLOCKING APPARATUS.
YARDLEY & CO.
BEG to call the attention of Directors, Engineers, and Superintendents to their Improved System of Signals and Interlocking Apparatus, which is now extensively used by the principal Railway Companies, and approved of by the Board of Trade Inspectors. Plans, Estimates, and Schedules given for New Lines and Reconstructions. RAILWAY SIGNAL WORKS, MANCHESTER. In 8vo., price 12s. RAILWAY REFORM. THE PURCHASE OF THE RAILWAYS BY THE STATE CONSIDERED AS AFFECTING THE NATION, THE SHAREHOLDERS, AND THE GOVERNMENT, WITH A COPIOUS APPENDIX, Containing a History of our Railway System, a Review of the Act of 1844 authorising the Purchase of the Railways, with Extracts from the evidence given before the Parliamentary Committee which sat in that year. By WILLIAM GALT. " We cannot, however, conchxdo without recommending this volume to the careful notice of all shareholders and others interested in railway jjroiDerty. The railway system from its commencement is considered at tcreat length, and with great perspicuity. We are shown the evils of competition, of opposition, and of high charges. It is curious to hear that the difference to the share- holders between a very high and a very low tariff is very small, but there is a mean rate which has to be arrived at by experience, that produces the greatest dividend." — 77<e Daihj Neirs. LONDON : LONGMAN k CO.
