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[[File:Loop Line specification and contract cover.jpg|thumb|300px200px|right|Front cover of the specification]]
The specification for construction of the Loop Line was issued in September 1874.
This transcript of the original document, held by The National Archives, preserves the inconsistent spelling and capitalisation (labour/labor, colour/color, moneys/monies, Works/works) and lack of punctuation. Unfortunately, no known copies of the drawings referred to exist.
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| style="vertical-align:top; width: 20%;" | ||style="text-align:center;" |'''Fencing'''<br>'''Drawing N<span style="vertical-align:super;font-size:small">o</span>5'''
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| || All fencing whether of post and Rail, Iron wire or boundary walls shall be of such a description as the Engineer may require, and shall be of the best materials and workmanship of their respective kinds, and placed in such a line or situation as the engineer or his Assistant may direct
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| | | |style="text-align:center;" | '''Occupation Road Field and Footpath Gates '''<br>'''Drawing No. N<span style="vertical-align:super;font-size:small">o</span>5 '''|-| || The hanging and closing posts shall be of sound English oak free from sap sawn die square above ground neatly chamfered on the edges and rounded on the top – The gates shall be of sound red wood fir free from sap shakes or flaws of the dimensions given in the drawing the whole planed and wrought truly square – The tenons and mortices shall be well and truly fitted together and when put together the joints shall be made ?? with white lead and secured with an oak pin All the ironwork shall be neatly forged and finished off – The whole of the gates to have four coats of best oil paint the last coat being of such colour as the Engineer may direct – Each occupation and field gate shall be provided with a good galvanized padlock keys and chain and with a notice board with the usual notice painted on it The occupation and field gates shall be hung so that they will close themselves and have a spring or catch to fasten to the closing post /24 /24 25 .|-| | ||style="text-align:center;" |'''Mile and Gradient Posts. ('''<br>'''Drawing No.N<span style="vertical-align:super;font-size:small">o</span>5) '''Occupation Road Field and Footpath Gates || A mile or quarter mile post shall be fixed at every quarter of a mile with the distance clearly shewn in miles and quarter miles The gradient posts shall be sound English oak free from sap and shakes and one shall be fixed at change of each gradient with the inclinations clearly painted on it Where required Companies boundary posts shall be fixed as directed by the Engineer The whole of the mile gradient and boundary posts shall have four coats of best oil paint; the last must be of such colour as the Engineer may direct|-| | ||style="text-align:center;" |'''Excavations for Foundations ''' Occupation Road Field and Footpath Gates || The excavations for foundations of all abutments piers bridge culverts walls and any other brick work or stonework shall be made to the exact size of the concrete brick or stonework and sunk to such a depth as the Engineer may direct and no concrete building or other work shall be commenced without the approval of the Engineer or his Assistant Should the hunches when in solid natural ground be dug by the Contractor of a greater width than is necessary for receiving the walls and foundations any space between the walls and the solid ground adjoining shall be filled and lightly packed with stones, no ash or soil being used.
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