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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2019) 172 (4): 148–151.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 embankments excavation railway systems Like many countries, the then-British island colony of Barbados (13·20° north, 59·54° west) in the West Indies was caught up in the development of rail transport for the movement of goods and people for work...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2019) 172 (2): 46–56.
Published: 01 May 2019
... & inspection railway systems tunnels & tunnelling Figure 1 Location of the Connaught Tunnel The Connaught Tunnel, designed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, son of the founder of the eponymous firm of engineers, is located in London’s historical Docklands, UK, to the east of the city...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2012) 165 (4): 241–255.
Published: 01 November 2012
... machine (photograph: Nick Catford, 2008) mining & quarrying railway systems tunnels & tunnelling As a result of limitations imposed on access through mountainous areas, tunnels frequently become the only suitable option to permit road and railway routes passage in this terrain...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2012) 165 (4): 257–268.
Published: 01 November 2012
... gauge branch from the princely state-owned Gondal Railway (1911) to Amreli and Gavadka. 08 10 2011 24 01 2012 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2012 economics & finance history railway systems Each state was ruled between 1871 and 1914 by a dynastic head...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2012) 165 (2): 65–72.
Published: 01 May 2012
.... bridges conservation railway systems The British Railways Board (BRB) formed the Railway Heritage Trust as a response to criticism of its handling of its heritage buildings and structures. In the 1950s, the British Transport Commission's modernisation plan (BTC, 1954) proposed to update its...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2012) 165 (1): 47–60.
Published: 01 February 2012
... – towards the south – grew fivefold between 1900 and 1920, when many industries concentrated around the city (Hanák and Benda, 1991). 07 3 2011 02 6 2011 The authors and the Institution of Civil Engineers 2012 railway systems rehabilitation, reclamation & renovation town...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2011) 164 (4): 201–209.
Published: 01 November 2011
...’ railway system were established (Lee, 1988). In 1860, John Fowler was hired as consulting and inspecting engineer in Britain to the colony's expanding railways. This involved a number of tasks, including the provision of purchase recommendations for locomotives, rolling stock and construction materials...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2010) 163 (4): 249–253.
Published: 01 November 2010
... on shares made by Charles Jones in 1872 (ICE, 2009f). economics & finance history railway systems The topography of the Italian peninsula presented railway builders with an outstanding challenge because, south of the Plain of Lombardy, narrow and irregular seaboards flank an unbroken...

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