The Draught of Military Carriages

Draught Animal Power

Routing of Railway Carriages

In the context of making timetables for railway companies the following railway carriage routing problem occurs. Given a timetable containing rail links with departure and destination times/stations and the composition of the trains, nd a routing of railway carriages such that always the needed carriages are available if a train departs. We will present a local search approach for this routing ...

Bugs in Railway Carriages

Sir,?With reference to Major Cornwall's letter in the February number of the Indian Medical Gazette, I would state that Hydrocyanic Gas has been used for some years to cleanse from bugs the sleeping carriages on the Cape Government Railways. Reference to this will be found in the report of the Government Entomologist of the Cape of Good Hope for the year 1901. The results were satisfactory and ...

Remedy for the Bugs in Railway Carriages

Draught animals and welfare.

In fifty developing countries, which contain half of the total human population of the world, there is a heavy dependence on draught animals as an energy source. These animals are used for agriculture operations in 52% of cultivated areas of the world, as well as for hauling 25 million carts. This situation is likely to continue for at least another fifty years. The work performed annually by t...