145 x 222mm, 342pp + 16pp adverts. Hardback. Good to VG condition with no marks or inscriptions. Slight staining to boards and foxing to endpapers. Nice, neat copy. Second reprint of the first edition of the standard textbook for railway Permanent Way Engineers. Includes standard principles for track design of the time, plus numerous mathematical tables and diagrams for enabling precise calculations. Several fold-out diagrams intact.