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Claims, Mode of Settling Disputed Liability for, as Between Railway Companies, 21O
——— Against Railway Companies for Loss or non-Delivery of Goods; Mode of Assessing Damages, 276
——— Against Railway Companies for Delay in Conveying Passengers; Mode of Assessing Damages, 281
Classes of Passenger Traffic—Relation of to each other, 239
Classification of Merchandise Traffic, 205, 256
Coal, Consumption of, by Engines, 255
Committees, Composition and Functions of, 12
Common Carriers, Rights and Duties of, 267
Compartments, Practice of reserving for Passengers, 249
Competition, Means of Avoiding Extreme, 207
——— When Pushed to an Extremity not to the Advantage of the Public, 209
——— Pressure of as affecting Railway Companies, 259
Concentration of Troops in the Event of Invasion by Means of the Railway System, 284
Conferences of Officers, Constitution and Functions of, 15
——— of Railway Companies to Agree upon Rates and Fares, 207
Consignment Notes, Utility of, 188
Continental Railways, disadvantages of as compared with English Railways, 259
Crewe Works, Description of, 108
Cross-Channel Traffic with Ireland, Mode of Conducting, 194
Crossings and Points, 51
Curves, Super-Elevation of Outer Rails on, 53

Debts and Claims Committee, Functions of, 13
Defence of the Country, Importance of Railways Considered in Relation to, 283
Delivery of Goods to a Carrier, what constitutes, 268
——— by a Carrier, what Constitutes, 274
Detector Locks for Points, 75
Directors, Qualification and Functions of, 12
Disc Signals for Sidings, 69
Distant Signals, 68
District Officers, Duties of, 14
Divisions of Traffic in Percentages between Railway Companies, 208
——— in Mileage Proportions of a Through Route, 212
Drainage of Permanent Way, System of, 49
Duplication of Lines on Crowded Railways, 152

Earlestown Waggon Works, Description of, 146
Earnings of the various classes of Passengers, 243, 256
Electric Signal Repeaters, 93
——— Locks for Protecting Sidings, 94
——— Lighting of Carriages, 139
Employers' Liability Act, 32
Engine Drivers, Selection and Training of, 28
——— Diagrams for Regulating Working of Trains, 151
——— Head Lights, Distinctive, 157
Engines, Primitive Type of, in Use on Earlier Railways, 98
——— Early Difficulties, Experienced with regard to, 101
——— Trial of, at Rainhill, in 1829, 101
——— Various Types of, in Use at Present Time, 101
——— Webb's Compound, Description of, 102
——— Advantages of Webb's Compound, 103