Text Appearing Before Image: for ten years. She neverdid this before and. in fact. I had nevertliought a stuck driving box wmild derailan engine After a number f derni!-ments I did the only thing 1 C>uli! d.iunder the circumstances: slacked off theback end of pedestal brace I lower thewedge and release the box. When I Stback to my terminal I sent the wedci toa shop 50 miles distant and had 11)inch planed off of it and 1 hs\ t had nofurther trouble. I am of the .pinion thatmany derailments have been caused imthis way. pRrii KlHOiF.Hliilc .^ulrhur .^frinss. V.\ IM. 274 RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE EXGLXEERING. August, 1915. Brighton Works of the London,Brighton & South Coast Ry. EV IltT.II (,. IKILTF.I.L. While in EiiRland last tall I had thegood icirtunt nt lu-ing alik to visit the of inside cylinders being cast, with thesteam chests beneath the cylinders. Aplain slide valve is u>ed and this simplydrops otT the seat while drifting, thussaving wear. It also allows a readye-eape for water of eon(len>atiiin. I Text Appearing After Image: BKIIISH T.VXK EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVE .\XL) Pn.EM.XX IK.MN. main shops or works of the London,lirighton & South Coast Ky., located inthe town of Brighton, one of the mostfamous watering places in England.My vi>it proved one of the pleasantestI have ever made and if the treatmentI received from the ofticials at Brigh-ton is any indication of what an .Anieri-<:an may expect in visiting the estahlishments of English railways. I wish1 coulil have inspected the establisli-iiients of all of them. In the lir.-t place, let me state th.-itI didnt take this trip with the idea ofgathering a great number of lignres.which would be used in an article show-ing tlie inferiority of British railway?compared to those in the United States.but merely to get a few general impressions, and in this 1 was successlul. The Brighton Line, while rac-tices may be taken as fairly rejjresenta-tive of other British roads. T
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