A Glossary Of Railwaymen S Talk

A wide-ranging reference work to guide both enthusiast and professional through the often specialist language that has developed during the last two hundred years. International in scope, the dictionary covers all aspects of railway terminology, past and present.

Excerpt from Dictionary of Railway Terms in Spanish-English and English-Spanish The railway world is no longer satisfied with books that contain so much irrelevant matter. The engineer, the contractor, the manager not only require a dictionary of convenient size with all those words eliminated which relate to other industries, but one also supplemented by that host of words which have of late arisen, following closely, one upon another, apace with the accelerating advance of railway work carried on by British enterprise in so many parts of South America. While discontented humanity is concentrated in the large and crowded towns and over-populated districts at home, and struggling, so to speak, for standing room, the far-seeing and enterprising railway man is throwing out his lines over the boundless expanse of rich and fertile lands of South America, laying the tracks over which to speed progress, and Opening Up a smiling country of promise to the enthusiasm of ambition and youth, as well as to the victims of excessive competition who go forth to start life anew. There was a time when railways branched out to serve the village which had risen to some importance: first the town, then the railway. Now things have changed; the railway man comes first with his main lines, and where he plants his stations there grow villages and towns. 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.