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Analysis of railways: consisting of a series of reports on the twelve hundred miles of projected railways in England and Wales, now before Parliament : together with those which have been abandoned for the present session; to which are added, a table of distances from the proposed London termini to eight well-known places in the metropolis; a table exhibiting the length, cost, tunnelling, curves, etc., of each of the railways for which bills are now in progress through Parliament : with a glossary; and other useful information / by Francis Whishaw
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GRAND CONNECTION.

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fourteen in number, nine to be passed over and five under;forty-six high-ways and parish roads, twenty-seven over andnineteen under ; thirty-two occupation roads, twenty over andtwelve under ; thirty - nine foot - paths ; twenty - six brooks,streams, &c., and twenty-eight level crossings. The ShortEnd Railway is proposed to be crossed in the level of therails; the Rivers Salwarp and Stour to be passed under therailway, the former at 46, and the latter at 71 feet below therails’ surface.

The canals to be crossed are the Birmingham and Worcester,which is 32 feet, the Droitwich , which is 25, and the Stour­ bridge , which is 37 feet below the rails’ top surface.

REMARKS.

The whole length of this line is 35 miles and 56|- chains,and consists of five level and eight inclined planes, of whichthe former amount to 7 miles 58f chains.

The gradients of the inclined planes range from 63-61 feetper mile, or 1 in 83, to 4 - 03 feet per mile, or 1 in 1307.

The steepest inclination is for a mile in length, is nearly thesame as that of the Sutton plane on the Manchester and Liver­ pool Railway , and will require an assistant engine ; the nextplane, of greater inclination than 1 in 330, or 16 feet permile, rises at the rate of 20'70 feet per mile, or 1 in 255, for1 mile 51 £ chains. The summit is 554 chains from the GrandJunction Railway at point of junction, and 229 feet 2 inchesabove the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway in WadboroughTownship.

There are four curves of less radius than $ of a mile.

The tunnelling amounts in length to 572 yards.

The heaviest embankment is between five and seven milesfrom the Pershore Terminus, is 1 mile 15 chains in length, andaverages 20 feet in height; the principal cutting is near theRiver Stour, and is 1 mile 45 chains in length, and averages36 feet in depth.

 
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