WAGE WAR ADKINS THE "BENDS" BOGY
workers on the new Thames water from bursing through from
Tunnel, just begun to connect Dart the river. On the famous Severn
first Tha
ford and Purfleet, are fighting a Tunnel and
ご
very real and terrible "bogy” tunnel work was many times The "bogy" is named "Bends," brought to a complete standstill and part of the daily battle with by these bursts.
case
him means navvies having to So much so in the latter spend two hours daily in specially that it took 18 years to complete constructed "dceompression" cham-it- The floodings also occasioned ber
some foss of life. In those days
The tunnellers who work at low the idea of using compression to levels on the job face many dan-stop-fooding was not thought of, gers, such as flooding and tunnel so there was no danger of the fires; but by far the greateest dan-"bends" retting in.
ger is the feared disease called Flooding Danger Avoided "Bends, which attacks under high pressure.
To combat this danger,
But now that compression is used the danger of loss of life by
pression chambers haveing is almost negligible,
es-
pecially with the modern methods structed The reason that high of linning the tunnel as work pro- pressure has to be used when ceeds.
boring under water is that, if And although there have been normal pressure only were used, some cases of workmen being at- there would be a much greater tacked with a bad seizure of possibility of the walls of
tunnel caving in
Can Be Fatal
the of "bends, there have not been
many fatal cases recorded, and none since proper decompression as has come into use..
2
"Bends" formerly known "compressed air disease". curious complaint, which is accom- panied by agonising pain, and of- ten results in permanent disability and sometimes death, especially if the proper treatment is not forth-
coming immediately.
"Bends under other
in this class of work for
names
FASTEST TRAIN IN EMPIRE London-Scotland In
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Coronation, the fastest train in
has been known by people engaged the Empire, left King's Cross at many four pm one day recently on its years, but recently rapid strides record-breaking run to Edinburgh,
have been made to prevent the complaint.
where it arrived six hours later It is caused by the sudden ex-one time being four minutes ahead
exactly on time at 36 pm, after at] pansion of air particles in the blood circulation and the body This was the feature of the ful
fof schedule. tissues but can be prevented by summer train services of the LN. allowing the workers to labour for EP.
a shorter time than they would Entirely streamlined with an ob be required to do on the surface
servation car in the rear, the train and by seeing that they are ac-was hauled by the locomotive Com customed to high pressure gradually before beginning work Bron, of Gateshead, and Fireman monwealth of Australia Driver T. and are decompressed at the end GR Charlton were in charge.
f their day's work.
ACCDI-
Passengers on the train, which was seen out by nearly-500 people, included Mr. W Whitelaw, Chair- man of the LNER, and the de- signer, Sir Nigel Gresley.
Six-Hour Day The decompression is plished by enclosing the workers in an air-tight chamber and raising the pressure therein to the pres-
At the same time a main-line train sure in which they have been working.
left for Leeds, Bradford and New- Then, very slowly, the -pressure is decreased so that the castle, this being the first occasion
body and blood system has time
on which two main-line trains have of adjust itself to normal condi-left King's Cross at the same mo tions without any sudden expan- sion of air. On the new job this decompression
about an hour, and the workers wil labour only six ars each day.
When tunnels, under water were first; attempted the greatest ob- stacle was the means of stopping
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