Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2024
Date 26-Jul
Volume 233
Issue 4,748
Page 207
Category Railway
Part 1
Title A Small Clearing in the Jungle: Phuket's First Railway
Author Colin Standish
Notes Introduces rail travel to Thailand's Tiger Kingdom. The clearance, jungle at the end of the road, sire cleared and levelled, support pillars in position, the curved mould, first beam cast on site, released from the mould, track bed completed, sleepers cut to length, laying the sleepers, drilling the outside rail, rail and fishplate drilling jigs, hook bolt jig, spacers tie bolts and spares