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Head Lights of Engines, Distinctive Colours of, 157
Holyhead Goods Station and Harbour, Construction and Working of, 194
Home Signals, 68

Inspections, System of Periodical, 17
Insurance Against Accidents to Railway Servants, 31
——— of Goods by Railway Companies, 267, 269
Interlocking of Points and Signals, First Introduction of, 66
——— Description of Theory and Practice of, 71
——— by Means of Keys for Sidings, 76
Invasion, Value of the Railway System in the Event of, 283
Irish Traffic, Mode of Conducting, at Holyhead, 194
Iron Sleepers, Experimental Use of, 48

Junctions, Formation of, 53

Key, Interlocking, for Siding Points, 76

Land, Compulsory Purchase of, for making of Railways, 221
——— Legal Means for Acquiring, upon Reasonable Terms, 222
——— Extravagant Prices Formerly Paid for, 222
Law as Between Railway Companies and the Public, 267
——— Affecting; Railways; Manner in which it is Defined, 268
Legislation Hostile to Railway Companies, 225
Liability of Railway Companies as Regards Carriage of Merchandise, 270
Light Indicators for Signals, 93
Lighting of Signal Lamps, 80
——— of Carriages by Gas, 136
——— Electricity, 139
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Projection of, 6
——— Opposition offered to, 7
——— Construction and Opening of, 8
——— Mode of Construction of, 8
——— Success of, 9
——— Type of Permanent way in Use upon, 42
Liverpool (Edge Hill), Description Footner's Plan of Sorting and Marshalling Waggons, 172
Live Stock, Conditions under which Railway Companies Carry, 272
Llandulas Viaduct Washed Away by Flood in 1879, 62
Locking Bars for Points, 75
Locomotive Committee, Functions of, 12
——— Department; Societies for Benefit of Staff, 36
——— Engines (see Engines)
London and Birmingham Railway, Projection and Construction of, 10
——— and North Western Railway, Various Companies Amalgamated under the Title of, 10
——— Statistics of, 11, 151
Lost Property, Means Adopted for Tracing Owners of, 218
Luggage of Passengers, Law Affecting the Conveyance of, 277, 279
——— Question of What Constitates, 280
——— Application of "Carriers' Act "to conveyance of, 280

Management of a Railway, 12
——— General Principles laid down for, 21
Marshalling of Goods Trains, Different Methods of. Employed, 170
——— Footner's Plan of "Gridiron" Sidings, 172
Merchandise, the Laws Affecting the Carriage of, 268
(see also Goods)