SCIENCE SIFTINGS.
RAPID RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
"Engineering" points to the Baluchistan Kail way as an example <n rapid construction. Ninety-five mi.es were completed in about two mouths, and the last 20 miles were made at tne rate of 3J miles per day. The gradients were about one in 2000 on a dry, barren, treeless, houseless plain, rising all the way. The desert was absolutely smooth and plain.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 259, 9 November 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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