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Loop Line specification and contract

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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 17. To provide materials, Labor, etc. || The Contractor shall at his own cost provide all materials (except those which are in Clause 19 specially excluded) labor, tools, watchmen, lighting, temporary fencing, shoring, centreingcentering, coffer dams, sewers, drains, pumping, scaffolding, horses, engines, waggons, barrows, planks, temporary rails, temporary bridges, roads, machinery, implements of every sort and all temporary works of every description necessary for the public safety of fulfilment of any legal obligation arising out of the construction of the said Works and the proper and entire completion of the works on or before the 31st day of October 1875.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 43. Imperfect work to be taken down and removed<br><br>To be executed properly<br><br>Without extra charge or extension of time<br><br>Company may cause imperfect works to be removed || In case the Engineer shall at any time during the progress of the said works be of opinion that any part of said works is being executed unsoundly or imperfectly, or not with proper materials, or in any respect not in accordance with the Specification, drawings plans or other instructions respectively, given by the Engineer to the Contractor, or shall at any time after the completion of the said works and during any period referred to in Clause 10 be of opinion that any works done by the Contractor have been executed unsoundly or improperly or not with proper materials or have become unsound, or imperfect by reason of accident or from any cause not being the act or default of the Company and in ase case the Engineer shall thereupon give the Contractor a notice in writing requiring him cause such part of the said works to be taken down and removed and to be re-executed properly, and with proper materials according to the Specification, drawings, plans, or other instructions then the Contractor shall forthwith comply with such notice, and do the several matters and things thereby required of him to the satisfaction of the Engineer without any extra charge and without any extension of the period for teh the completion of the said works in respect thereof, notwithstanding that before the giving of such notice any payment may have been made by the Company on account of such works so objected to, or any Certificate may have been given by the Engineer of the due execution thereof. And in case the Contractor shall not within ten days after the receipt of such notice have duly complied therewith and executed the works thereby required or commenced and diligently proceeded with the same, the Company shall be entitled to cause the works so objected to, to be taken down and removed and to be executed properly and with proper materials and for that purpose to expend such sum as as the Engineer may consider reasonable and proper and to recover the money so paid from the Contractor in manner provided by Article 46.
A drain shall be made in each side of the Railway on top of cuttings and at foot of embankments as shewn on Drawing No 4 of such depth as effectually to carry off all water but in no case shall it be less than 18 inches in depth and of the proper slope and form as shewn on the drawings and whenever it intersects cross drains the water from such cross drains shall be properly carried into it and it shall be well puddled opposite all such cross drains.
All wrought fencing shall have four coats of best oil paint the last coat of such color as the Engineer may direct. The posts of approach fencing shall be of English Oak 6 ft 6 in by 4 in and when firmly fixed in the ground it shall stand 4 feet above the surface, the distance from centre to centre of post to be 6 feet. The rails shall be three in number made of best red wood teh the top rail being 4 inch square set on edge in a birds mouth cut in the top of the post and firmly secured to the post by an iron strap 15" long on each side by 2" wide by one eigth eighth of an inch in thickness. The rails shall be continuous and in lengths of not less than 18 feet properly scarfed and jointed on the top of the post – The other two sails shall be 3½ inches deep by 2 inch thick well and securely morticed into the post – The whole of the posts and sails to be planed and wrought truly square
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| || After the work of excavation and embanking shall have been completed the Contractor shall remove all temporary railway meterials materials and ballast and shall clean up and perfect the formation and drainage according to the drawings, and when the formation shall have thus been properly prepared and approved by the Engineer the bottom ballast shall be laid down to the thickness of one foot and to the width & form shewn on the enlarged cross section of the line. It shall consist of strong blast furnace cinders slag rough gravel or rock broken to a size capable of passing through a 4 inch ring or such hard and dry material as the Engineer may approve. The permanent way shall then be laid and securely packed up and boxed, the top ballast being of the same material as the bottom ballast but broken to pass through a 2 inch ring No sand will be allowed to be used on any consideration whatever nor material containing any admixture of clay or soil.
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| || The bricks shall be good hard sound well shaped and thoroughly burnt bricks all of uniform size and of uniform color in the face of the work, and picked bricks shall be used for facework, copings, string courses &c. No difference of workmanship will be allowed in the inside and outside work and every brick shall be well saturated with water before set in place, the whole of the work shall be flushed up solid with mortar every course and all the outside joints shall be neatly pointed and drawn and no joint shall exceed one fourth of an inch in thickness.
All Brickwork shall be of old English bond throughout unless otherwise ordered by the Engineer and all parts of the work shall be throroughly [sic] thoroughly bonded together. No broken bricks or pieces will be allowed to be used except what is necessary to form proper bond. Dry filling to be rough broken stone or rough screened gravel.
Brick arches shall be built in rings with the hardest selected bricks and properly bonded with a header course when any two rings form a fair radiating joint to the centre.
The courses of bricks in the arch shall be gauged and masked on the laggins over the whole length of the centre before any bricks will be permitted to be laid in the arched.

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