"Interlocking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the slope was scarcely clogged at all. The firs, waving now and interlocking their branches in that vague joy or trouble of the winter wind, were keeping off the powdery drift. When he got to his house he saw Jerry on the way to the barn, but he did not hail him. Possibly Jerry had paid Tenney for his ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... as they came within whistling distance of the tower at the interlocking rails where ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman
... itself, was the direct cause of a famous, and at the time, a sensational "incident." In 1887 the down morning mail train ran off the line at Ellesmere and it was held that this was due to delay on the part of the porter in not being at the points in time to work them properly. For at this time the interlocking system, made compulsory under the Act of 1889, had not been installed, and the safety of trains depended on due attention to the pointsman's functions. When, in 1891, a Committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir Michael Hicks-Beach was chairman, sat to inquire ...
— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine |
