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A splayed or wedge coping is one that slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point. [2] Coping may be made of stone (capstone), brick, clay or terracotta, concrete or cast stone, tile, slate, wood, thatch, or various metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, steel, and zinc. [3]
A precast concrete walled house under construction An example of low-quality precast concrete with exposed dowels, connectors, indications of cracks, and malformations, even during its installation, Barangay Lantic, Carmona, Cavite, Philippines Interior view of the walls, supports, and roof of a precast commercial shop in Williston, North Dakota, US.
Slab track with flexible noise-reducing rail fixings, built by German company Max Bögl, on the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line. A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt.
The bridge was built by the Great Northern Railway to carry its line over the River Trent. The south part is in brick, and consists of three elliptical stone arches with rusticated voussoirs, and stone cutwaters. Above the arches is a stone band, and a brick parapet with stone coping.
The bridge was built by the Leeds and Selby Railway to carry its line over the Great North Road, it is in sandstone and consists of a single span. The bridge has an impost band and rusticated voussoirs, and the flanking walls are angled and raked with stone coping. The parapet has a string course, and curved end piers. [6] Milepost at SE431331
The 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (1898 to 1935) in North Devon, experimented with concrete sleepers at a number of locations along the line. As the sleepers were cast to gauge, they were of little use outside the station areas on this very curvaceous line where gauge slackening was commonly required.
The forecourt of the building is enclosed by a low brick wall with stone coping, and is about 50 metres (160 ft) long. The railings and gates are in cast iron and elaborately decorated. The gate piers each has an octagonal plinth and shaft, a narrow neck, a capstone with a carved flower frieze , and a domed top with a knob finial .
A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...