Practical Tunnelling: The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels

Frederick Walter Simms

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The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels

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Frederick Walter Simms

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2015
Print publication year:: 2014
First published in:: 1844
Online ISBN:: 9781107279964
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107279964

Subjects:: History of Science, Engineering, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, General Science
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

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The engineer and technical writer Frederick Walter Simms (1803–65) ranked as a leading authority on tunnel construction for railways. After working for a time at the Royal Observatory, Simms assisted Henry Robinson Palmer and later Sir William Cubitt on the South Eastern Railway. He was awarded the Telford medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1842 for his articles on tunnelling, and further employment on railways in England and France was followed by engineering consultancies to the East India Company and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. He gained greatest recognition, however, as the author of authoritative engineering textbooks, notably this work, first published in 1844. Considered the standard textbook on the subject at the time, it sets out the approved practices of the day, using the Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels, whose construction Simms supervised, as key examples. A number of technical illustrations accompany the text.

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Practical Tunnelling

The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

PREFACE
pp vii-ix

CONTENTS
pp x-xi

ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xii-xii

CHAP. I - Geological features of the South-Eastern Railway.—General account of Blechingley and Saltwood Tunnels, their cost, &c.
pp 1-18

CHAP. II - Description of the Observatory.—The Transit Instrument, and the method of fixing and adjusting
pp 19-28

CHAP. III - Setting out the Shafts.—Ranging the line, both above and under ground.—Taking the levels, and establishing bench marks, or points of reference, &c
pp 29-40

CHAP. IV - Shaft sinking.—The Trial Shafts
pp 41-50

CHAP. V - Shaft sinking, continued.—Excavating and constructing the working shafts, and supporting the brickwork by shaft sills and hanging rods
pp 51-58

CHAP. VI - Shaft sinking, concluded.—Excavating and square timbering the lower portion of the shafts
pp 59-66

CHAP. VII - Driving the headings, and experiments upon horse power
pp 67-72

CHAP. VIII - Form and dimensions of Blechingley and Saltwood Tunnels.—Description of the skips, &c.—And the horse-gins employed in the construction of the works
pp 73-80

CHAP. IX - Construction of the Tunnels.—The side lengths, excavation, and timbering
pp 81-94

CHAP. X - Construction of the Tunnels, continued.—The side lengths, brickwork
pp 95-108

CHAP. XI - Construction of the Tunnels, continued.—The shaft lengths, excavation, and brickwork
pp 109-116

CHAP. XII - Construction of the Tunnels, concluded.—The leading and the junction lengths, excavation and brickwork
pp 117-136

CHAP. XIII - Tunnel entrances.—Shaft towers, and culvert through the tunnel
pp 137-146

CHAP. XIV - The centres of ordinary construction:—and description of Frazer's patent centres
pp 147-162

CHAP. XV - Miscellaneous.—Cast iron shaft curbs.—Cutting bricks.—Weight of brickwork.—Brickmaking contract,—&c
pp 163-168

APPENDIX - Blechingley Tunnel sick fund.—The late Mr. Rennie's Report upon the Highgate Archway Tunnel
pp 169-175

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The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels

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