Totley Tunnel
Practical Tunnelling
We would like to thank Martin Stranex, M.I.C.E for sending us the following extract from Frederick Walter Simms' book Practical Tunnelling published in 1896. Martin observes that it is written from a contractor's point of view and makes a brief acknowledgement of help from the Institute of Civil Engineers. The work appears to have been written with first-hand site knowledge of Rickard's paper, based on site diaries and progress reports.
No acknowledgement is made within Chapter 28 to the author of the 1894 paper to the Institution of Civil Engineers, Percy Rickard who supervised Totley Tunnel as the Resident Engineer to Consulting Engineers, Parry & Storey. Following Rickard's death in 1893 aged 34 from typhoid, towards the end of construction, his paper was presented to a meeting at ICE by his boss Edward Parry who was the Engineer for the works.
Practical Tunnelling by F.W. Simms (1896)
Chapter 28 is about the Totley Tunnel.
Extract from Practical Tunnelling by Fre[...]
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The Engineer, 26 January 1894
The Tunnels of the Dore & Chinley Railway
Contains a report on page 79 of the meeting of the Institute of Civil Engineers on 23 January 1894 at which the late Percy Rickard's paper was read.
Er18940126.pdf
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Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers
Discussion on Totley and Cowburn Tunnels
Comments on Percy Rickard's paper presented at the Institute of Civil Engineers on 23 January 1894 and discussed at a further meeting on 30 January 1894.
imotp.1894.19979.pdf
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