Railway Work Research Articles

The Baimoral Bridge of I. K. Brunel

AbstractA considerable number of I. K. Bruner's railway bridges are still operational, varying in size from the great Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar to a host of small masonry bridges for accommodation roads over or under his broad-gauge main lines and subsidiary routes like the Taff Vale Railway. There were, however, few bridges built by him apart from his railway works, and it could have been safely assumed that all such bridges which survive would have been clearly recognized as having been built by him. Yet this has not been so with one particular road bridge, for which Bruners responsibility has been either doubted or ignored, even though it survives in excellent working order. The bridge in question is that over the River Dee at Balmoral.

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT v. ASSOCIATED SOCIETY OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN AND OTHERS (No. 2)

May 19, 1972 Industrial Relations — Industrial dispute — Emergency provisions — “Irregular industrial action” — Work to rule on railways — “Concerted course of conduct … by a group of workers” — Whether in “breach of their contracts of employment” — Industrial Relations Act, 1971 (c.72), ss. 33(4), 138(1) (2), 139(1) (4), 141(1) (2), 142(1), 143(1) (2). Master and Servant — Contract of service — Effect of railway work to rule disrupting services — Whether in breach of contract — Industrial Relations Act, 1971, s. 33(4).

China's First Woman Despatcher

The exemplary achievements of Sun Hsiao-chü, New China's first woman despatcher, have made a great impression on me. Her sturdiness and her well-developed muscles are typical for the women of New China. Her father was a railway worker, and from early childhood she wanted to be "a glorious worker just like him." In 1949, after finishing elementary school, she passed the examination for apprentice and went to work in the railway station office at Chichihar in Northeast China. The stories of the new deeds of men and women of New China encouraged her. Her superiors decided to train her for a coupler. "A coupler doesn't have an easy job. He has to couple the engine to the carriages, and if the junction isn't right there are sure to be accidents," she thought. Bearing in mind, however, the courage and determination of those other workers in New China, she accepted the offer with alacrity, and in 1950 she became a coupler in the Chichihar station. "Who has ever heard of a woman coupler before! Women have their own work, what do they want to do men's work for?" people said. These and similar sarcastic remarks stung her, and she felt uneasy under them. But the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party branch at the station kept encouraging her. She felt that a great many people were backing her up. "Let them scoff at me as much as they like," she thought to herself. "I'll shut them up with my work."

Scullin as Prime Minister: Seven Critical Decisions

Scullin became Prime Minister1 after a landslide victory to Labor on 12 October 1929. Only twenty-seven months later, Scullin led the party to humiliating defeat, Labor membership of the House having declined from forty-seven to thirteen. Almost from the time he became Prime Minister, Scullin's record was largely one of failure: failure to counter the worsening depression, failure to honour an election promise that the New South Wales northern coalfields, closed for months by a lockout, would be opened on the men's terms. The received opinion among historians is that he was 'weak', unfitted to the demands of 1930 and 1931 and, as well, perhaps unequal to the job of Prime Minister. Moreover, certain of Scullin's actions seemed to be so little in keeping with the philosophy of the party he led that an impression has been created of a man who forgot Labor principles while in office. In fact, a close study of his prime ministership seems to show that, faced with a series of crises, Scullin responded with a set of decisions which were, with some exceptions, perfectly reasonable?even though on occasions the arguments for and against a particular course of action were finely balanced. His apparent rejection of some traditional Labor principles sprang from a conviction that compromise was necessary in order to preserve workers and pensioners from even worse hardships. Three quarters of a loaf, he reckoned, was better than half. The son of a Victorian railway worker, J. H. Scullin joined the Labor Party at twenty-seven?rather older than did some other Labor leaders. Seven years later, in 1910, he began a three-year term as the Federal member for Corangamite, a rural electorate in Victoria's Western District. Corangamite was lost in the swing against Labor in 1913, and for almost a decade after that Scullin was editor of a Labor newspaper, the Ballarat Evening Echo. Although now outside Parliament, Scullin attracted considerable attention in the Labor movement, most notably for his fierce opposition to Hughes' attempt in 1916 to introduce con scription for overseas military service. When Tudor, leader of the Labor Party and member for Yarra, died in January 1922, Scullin secured party endorsement for the vacant electorate from a big field. Yarra was one of Australia's safest Labor seats, and a few months after his election to Parliament, Scullin went to live there, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His activities in a Caucus which lacked the great names of Fisher's era, combined with his skill and

Ruskin College

Jim is thirty‐one years old. The son of a railway worker in the north, he left school at fifteen and was a manual worker for the next few years. By the age of twenty‐one he was married and a fairly active young socialist. Now, ten years later, he has two children, is a capstan lathe operator in a local factory, a shop steward, and an active member of the local Labour party. He has attended a WEA course on British economic history and has been to a two‐week summer school on ‘Problems of the British Economy’. He has also done a little reading on his own on trade unionism and politics.

Development of aluminum alloy overhead line structure

In electrification work of railways, steel truss structure, having fabricated steel masts or concrete poles, is generally used for supporting overhead line. The structure shall need bearing capacity of soil amounting 10-20t/m2 in order to support its weight and moment. However, in the electrificationwork of JNR Tohoku Line, it was found that the ground is as weak as 1t/m2 in bearing capacity at Mutsuichikawa Station. In order to solve the problem mentioned above, the authors developed a light weight overhead line structure of 15m in span, constructed with shapes and plates of 6061-T6 aluminum alloy. The design and test results of the structure are reported in this paper.The developed light weight portal structure is as light as 40% in weight as compared with that of the ordinary structures of the same class. As the results of tests at the actual spot, it was found to be durable to support the loads, which are to be expected by overhead line structure. The structure can endure uneven settlement of struts up to 312mm induced by the weak ground. However, its recovery after the settlement will easily be adjusted owing to its light weight.

鉄道工場における生産管理の機械化

鉄道工場における生産管理の機械化

The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules

The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules

The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules.

The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules.

Book Review: Labor Organizations: The Locomotive Engineer, 1863–1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules

Book Review: Labor Organizations: The Locomotive Engineer, 1863–1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules

Charles Alfred Edwards, 1882-1960

Charles Alfred Edwards was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 78 years ago on 23 March 1882. Kitchener is an industrialized city some 80 miles west of Toronto. His father, Samuel Edwards, and mother, Elizabeth Edwards, had four sons and two daughters. They moved to England when Edwards was only two years of age. Information about the early years of Charles Edwards is sparse but in 1898, at the age of 16, he was apprenticed to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Works at Horwich, Lancashire. During his seven years with this firm he developed an interest in metals and alloys and spent some years in the Chemical Laboratory. This led to his being appointed in 1905 as assistant to Dr H. C. H. Carpenter (later Sir Harold Carpenter) in the Metallurgical Department of the National Physical Laboratory. Dr Edwards’s first scientific publication followed two years later, jointly with Dr Carpenter, it being the ‘Eighth Report to the Alloys Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’. This was an account of an extensive research on copper-aluminium alloys.

鉄道従業員の疲労に関する研究

鉄道従業員の疲労に関する研究

鉄道従業員の疲労に関する研究

鉄道従業員の疲労に関する研究

Traumatic armour heart

The case is reported of a 59-year-old railway worker who was examined 20 years after severe trauma of the chest. The examination showed the presence of armour heart and rather extensive pleurodiaphragmatic adhesions; physical fitness was almost completely preserved.

Private Railway Worker's Solidarity

Private Railway Worker's Solidarity

A method for setting out batter pegs

Abstract When engaged on engineering projects, surveyors and assistants are sometimes required to mark the positions of tops of cuttings and toes of fillings of proposed earthworks. The method described herein lends itself particularly to road or railway works, but may be adapted to practically any type of excavation. It is considered superior to that given in text books, wherein a level and staff are employed.

Pennsylvania railroad ignitron rectifier locomotive

Continued and intensive developments in perfecting the ignitron rectifier for broad application in the industrial and power fields revived interest recently in using it for railway work. Extensive tests in the laboratory and on an experimental railway car have demonstrated that a locomotive using ignitron rectifiers offered promise in combining the best features of the a-c and d-c electrification systems. The features of two such locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad are described in the following paragraphs.

The Pennsylvania Railroad ignitron-rectifier locomotive

Continued and intensive developments in perfecting the ignitron rectifier for broad application in the industrial and power fields revived interest recently in using it for railway work. Extensive tests in the laboratory and on an experimental railway car have demonstrated that a locomotive using ignitron rectifiers offered promise in combining the best features of the a-c and d-c electrification systems. The features of two such locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad are described in the following paragraphs.

Some Examples of Improvements in Building Rolling Stocks in Japanese Government Railway Works.

Some Examples of Improvements in Building Rolling Stocks in Japanese Government Railway Works.

鉄道局工場における車輛製作作業改良の例

鉄道局工場における車輛製作作業改良の例