Permanent-way Definition

Permanent-way Sentence Examples

• While working on the permanent-way, sidings, 14.

• Flooding of portions of permanent-way 24 22.

• In rack railways a cog-wheel on the engine engages in a toothed rack which forms part of the permanent way.

• Such an arrangement would be ideally perfect from the point of view of the permanent-way engineer, because it would then be possible to distribute the whole of the load uniformly between the wheels.

• Its critics, however, accuse it of lack of stability, and assert that the use of large leading wheels as drivers results in rigidity and produces destructive strains on the machinery and permanent way.