Railway Course

Note : the page numbers correspond to the original pagination.

Table of contents - Book No.1

General considerations 2
Railway History and Financial Regime 4
Study of the track
- Influence of track on train traction 18
- Principle of adhesion 19
Study of the route 25
- Conditions for a good route 27
Final studies 28
- Map at 1/80,000th 29
- Map at 1/40,000th 29
- Field study 30
- Office study 31
- Postponement of the route on the field 31
- Study of special locations 33
- Crossing faeries 33
- Crossing the valleys 35
- Crossing roads and paths 36
- Upper passes 39
- Lower passes 40
- Study of the transverse profile 40
- Special transverse profiles at 1/200th 45
- Cubature of earthworks 45
Infrastructure works 45
- Acquisition of land 46
Execution of earthworks 47
- Debris 47
- Trench settlement 48
- Performing embankments 48
Consolidation of slopes and drying of the platform 51
- Soil erosion 51
- Ripraps, retaining walls 56
- Covering ditches 57
- Consolidation of embankments 57
- Drying the platform 58
Construction of ordinary structures and level crossings 60
- Execution of masonry 63
- Wing walls and back walls 65
Structures intended to ensure the flow of water 69
- Arched culvert 72
Works intended for the communication restoration 73
- Lower passes 73
- Upper passes 75
- Level crossings 76
- Rolling barriers 78
- Barriers manoeuvred remotely 78
- Oscillating barriers manoeuvred on site 80
- Pedestrian gates 81
- Guard houses 82
Special structures 83
- Masonry bridges 84
- Metal bridges 85
- Metal viaducts 88
- Tunnel construction 90
Tracks and accessories
- Track per se 93
- Efforts supported by the track 93
- Rails 96
- Rail resistance calculation 98
- Qualities required of rail steel 102
- Rail quality control 103
- Comparison between the Vignole rail and the double head rail 105
- Joiners 109
- Chairs 113
- Fixing equipment 114
- Base plates 117
- Wooden sleepers 118
- Metal sleepers 121
Laying of track 126
- Distribution of sleepers 126
- Laying the track in curve 128

Table of contents - Book No. 2

Laying of track
- Laying the track in curve (continued) 129
- Over-spacing 130
- Connecting the slope 135
- 136
Track devices
- Lane changes 138
- Points 140
- Crossing 144
- Connection radius 147
- Laying Lane Changes 149
- Manoeuvring points 150
- Oblique crossing 158
- Rectangular crossing 159
- Slip switch 160
- 3-lane points 162
- Turntable 162
- Locomotive turntable 165
- Rollong trolleys 167
Signals and interlocking
- Trains signals 174
- Acoustic signals 174
- Fixed signals 176
- Remote disk 176
- Absolute stop square signal 177
- Turnout direction indicator 179
- 8 missing pages
- Lartigue controller 189
- Lock 190
- Pedals 193
- Signal succession order 194
- Usefulness of concentration cabs and interlocking 197
Interlockings
- Route interlocking and protection interlocking 198
- Notation of interlocking 199
- Vignier system 203
- Type Nord Vignier interlocking cabs 204
- Saxby & Farmer system 206
- Stevens interlocking system 211
- Synoptic tables 213
- Determination of interlocking 215
- Cabs with fluid transmission 221
- Hydrodynamic cabs 222
- Hydrodynamic cabs with trajectors and multiple controls 227
- MDM self combiner 228
Technical exploitation
- Movement 234
- Nature of trains 234
- Train speed 236
- Train running charts 237
- Train circulation 239
- Double lane lines 241
- Piloting 242
- Single Lane Lines 243
- Traveler service 245
- Couriers and postal services 247
- Low speed goods 249
- Carriage of goods carloaded by complete wagons 250
- Group trains 253
- Assignment wagons for the transport of low speed retail packages 253
- Fitting out the stations 255

Table of contents - Book No. 3

- Single lane line sattions 262
- Medium sized stations 263
- Other types of stations 264
- Crossing stations 265
- Bifurcation stations 267
- Large passage stations 271
- Fitting out of the passenger building in a large station 273
- Passenger terminal station 275
- Large stations of Paris 276
- Raised platforms 281
- Circulation of luggage tricycles 282
Sorting yards
- Disconnection 283
- Formation 285
- Specialized sorting yards 285
- Gravity sorting without hump 292
- Gravity sorting with hump 293
- Slowing down 294
- Wind influence 295
- Cost price 296
- Large transfer stations 297
- Large specialized freight stations 301
- Industrial connections 311
- Transport and mechanical sorting of small parcels at Paris-Austerlitz 316
- Maritime stations 319
Equipment and traction
- Wheel flanges 327
- Wheel alignment on axles 327
- Tyre conicity 328
- Axle parallelism 328
Rolling stock
- Number of axles 330
- Axle spacing of of the rigid stocke 331
- Rolling stock gauge 332
Description of wagons 332
- Wheels 333
- Tyres 336
- Axles 338
- Lubrication 340
- Suspension of vehicles 341
- Chassis 344
- Coupling devices 347
- Shock devices 350
- Disposition of couplings 351
- Automatic couplings 353
- Body, passenger coach 357
- Goods wagons 359
- Advantages of high capacity wagons 361
- Intercommunication 363
- Train heating 364
- Lighting 372
Resistance of trains 375
- Dynamometer wagon 384

Table of contents - Book No. 4

- Calculation of coatch and wagon resistance in straight alignment 385
- Increased resistance of coatches and wagons due to curves 387
- Resistance of the locomotive and tender 387
- Example of calculation of the traction force for a given train 388

Locomotive 389
- Maximum theoretical traction force 390
- Adhesion 391
- Practical adhesion coefficient 392
- Axle coupling 393
- Means of increasing the adhesion coefficient 394
- Riggenbach process 396
- Adhesion variation396
- Relationship between cylinder volume and adhesion 397
- Starting 399
- Boiler 400
- Fireplace 401
- Firebox 402
- Cylindrical body 407
- Relative position of firebox and axles 408
- Tubes 410
- Grid 412
- Heating surface 414
- Smoke box 414
- Chimney 415
- Additional installations on boilers 416
- Superheater 417
- Vaults 421
- Exhaust 422
- Blower 426
- Regulators 427
- Safety valves 429
- Whistle 430
- Water level tube 431
- Water feeding 431
- Boiler envelope 435
- Autoclave pads and joints 436
- Fastening the boiled on the chassis 437
- Chassis 438
- Suspension 439
- Axle boxes 446
- Arrangements for facilitating the passage in curves 448
- Mechanism 455
- Cylinders 456
- Pistons 457
- Distribution 460
- Rigging angle 463
- Reverse 468
- Gooch distribution 471
- Allan distribution 471
- Walchaert or Heusinger von Waldegg distribution 472
- Special distribution 472
- Starting 475
- Running with closed regulator 476
- Compound locomotives 476
- Different types of compound locomotives 480
- Parasitic movements, counterweight 484
- Tender 489
- Tender water warming 493
- Tender locomotives 494

Depots 495

Brakes 500
- Vacuum brake 504
- Automatic vacuum brake 507
- Air Brake (Westinghouse) 507
- Triple valve 511

Table of Contents - Book No. 5

- Driver’s brake valve515
- Compressor519
- Steam back-braking522
- Use of sand to stop526
- Formula giving relationship between braked weight and space…527

Commercial operation 532
- Definitions533
- History of tariffs534
- Homologation of tariffs536
- Various forms of tariffs and establishment of scales539
- Maximum tariffs of Terms of Reference - Tariffs of application541
- Low Speed - Maximum prices of Terms of Reference - General and…546
- Low Speed general tariffs548
- Low Speed special tariffs552
- International transport554
- Delivery and haulage554
- Cost-to-income ratio555
- French Railways statistic table - Year 1909556

Narrow gauge railways and Tramways
- Law of 11 June 1880559
- Local interest railways559
- Tramways560
- New law (under consideration)561
- Tracks561
- Rolling stock563
- Narrow gauge locomotives563
- Railcars568
- Electric railcars569
- Steam railcars573
- Gas railcars577
- Financial results578
- Mechanical drive on road - Automobiles579

Metropolitan railways585
- Comparison of the various metropolitan railways setting conditions586
- Viaducts587
- Underground587
- Rolling stock and pulling590
- Ventilation592
- Receipts of Paris Metropolitan since its creation592

End of Railway Course