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Railway Clearing House Statistics of, 214
——— Methods and Machinery of, 216
——— As a Means of Tracing lost Property, 218
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1873, Provisions of, 224
——— 1888, Provisions of, 229
Railway Commissioners' Court, Constitution of under Act of 1873, 224
——— Extension of Powers under Act of 1888, 229
Railway Companies and their Relation to the Trade of the Country, 225
Railway Engineers' Corps, Value of in Relation to Military Operations, 287
Rates and Fares Committee, Functions of, 13
——— Mode of Calculating, 204
——— Effects of Competition on, 206
——— Conferences of Railway Companies to Agree Upon, 207
——— Demand that the State should be Empowered to Fix, 225
——— And Charges, Mode of fixing maxima under the Act of 1888, 230
Receipts from Passenger Traffic, 242, 250, 256
Responsibility, Chain of Throughout Railway Service, 15
Responsibilities of Railway Companies as regards Carriage of Goods; Where they begin and End, 268
——— Of Companies for the Acts of their Servants, 279
"Rocket," Trial of, at Rainhill in 1829, 100
Rods for Working Points, 80
Route Indicators (Electric), 94
Royal Train, Description of Mode of Working, 168
Rules and Regulations for Working Railways, 18
——— for working of Railways in time of war, 289

Saloon Carriages, 126, 248
Second Class, Abolition of on Some Railways, 125, 243
Sheffield Colliery Tramway of 1776, 40
Shunting Indicators (Electric), 94
——— Of Slow Trains to allow Fast Trains to pass, 154
——— And Marshalling of Goods Trains, 170
——— Footner's Plan of Grid-iron Sidings, 172
Signals, Concentration of, 67
——— Various Descriptions of, in Use, 68
——— Home, 68
——— Distant, 68
——— Starting, 68
——— Disc, 69
——— Making of, 78
——— Arrangements for Maintenance and Repair of, 81
——— Sighting of, 82
——— Signal Cabins and Apparatus, 69
——— Fitting Establishment at Crewe, 77
——— Lamps, Lighting of, 80
Signalmen, Training and Examination of, 26
Signalling and Interlocking, System of, 64
——— Earlier Methods of, 65
Single Lines, Methods of Working, 160, 161, 162
Sleepers, Description of, Now in Use, 46
——— Experimental Use of Iron and Steel, 48
Sleeping Saloons, Advantages of, 126
Societies for the Benefit of the Staff, 29
Speed of Trains not the first Desideratum, 158
——— of Trains, Increase in, 245
Staff, Number of Men Employed, 25
——— Training and Examination of, 26
Starting Signals, 68
State, The, Relations of to Railways in Different Countries, 220