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Railways Board of India. Technical papers covering many areas of India and very many aspects of railway design, including subjects as diverse as foundations, tracks, bridges, inclines, curvature, signalling, safety, etc., and construction, wear, creep, costs, etc. often relevant specifically to Indian railways but also in many cases applicable to railway engineering generally.

• No. 118, The physics of the river Indus
• No. 119, Impact and fatigue in railway bridges
• No. 121, Train loads for bridge design
• No. 123, The determination of the safe working stress for railway bridges
• No. 124, Note on English single line working
• No. 125, Sullivan’s staging for erection of girders
• No. 127, Estimation of traffic earnings
• No. 128, Description of interlocking and detecting apparatus for roadside stations on single line
• No. 129, Notes on Eüler’s formula and the deflection of columns
• No. 135, Conventional signs used in interlocking diagrams
• No. 136, Actuarial formulae and tables
• No. 140, Two papers:-
  1. Notes on the maintenance of permanent way in India
  2. Notes on the maintenance of the Denham-Olpherts’ cast iron plate sleeper
• No. 142, Dharlla, Sankos and Gangadhar bridges
• No. 146, Block signalling on double and single line, East Indian railway
• No. 147, Trains blown over by wind
• No. 148, Statistics of railway working expenditure
• No. 149, Practical notes on tunnelling
• No. 153, River training and control on the guide bank system, [including chapters on]:-
  • Comparison of Indian rivers with the Mississipi
  • A theory of cut-offs and avulsions
  • The physics of alluvial rivers in general
  • The deep scour which endangers permanent structures
  • The classification of river sands
  • The artificial narrowing of rivers, by means of guide banks
  • The length and shape of guide banks
  • The guide bank section and that of its armour
  • Construction and maintenance of guide banks
  • Depth of bridge piers as affected by river training
  • The effect of narrowing a river on other interests
  • Spur training on the Chenab river at Wazirabad
  • The training of the Sutlej at Adamwahan
  • Denehey’s groynes, at the Lower Ganges canal headworks
  • Training works for the Ferozpur-Sutlej bridge
  • The training of the Chenab river at Sher Shah
  • The Gogra and Kosi training works
  • The training of the Ganges at Garhmuktesar
  • The training of four Brahmaputra affluents, and of some minor rivers
  • The training of the Indus at Dera Ghazi Khan
  • Training works at Khanki and Rasul canal headworks
  • The author’s proposed training works for the Lower Ganges bridge
  • The cost of bridging and training
  • The gauging of a great river in flood time
  • Summary of advice as to guide bank design
• No. 156, A guide bank for the bridge over the Mahanadi river, East Bengal state railway
• No. 158, Roaring rails
• No. 159, Notes on drift sand and drift snow