Excerpt from The Hydraulic Railway: Being a Carefully Digested but Plain Statement of the Advantages to Be Derived, and Impediments Removed, in Establishing Hydraulic Propulsion, on Railways The references however are more numerous than I anticipated on a subject so sinsple; but my first surprise at this was removed, when I considered what number of references would be requisite to describe the whole machinery of a locomotive, and what greater number must be added, if, not a locomotive only, but also a large portion of the whole working system of railway were, according to its present arrangemmt, and for the first time, to be brought before the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.