Railway Reform: Its Importance and Practicability Considered as Affecting the Nation, the Shareholders, and the GovernmentLongman & Company, 1865 - 405 páginas |
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Act of Parliament amalgamation amount annum average benefit bill Birmingham Board of Trade Brighton capital carriage carried cent charges coal committee competing lines competition consider considerable construction conveyance conveyed cost directors districts dividend Eastern effect engine expense farthing per mile favour first-class George Stephenson Gladstone Government Grand Junction halfpenny increase kingdom Lancashire Legislature Liverpool Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham London and North-Western low fares Manchester matter ment merchandise millions sterling monopoly nation necessary opinion opposition paid panies Parliament Parliamentary Parliamentary trains payments penny Post Office postage present system principle profit proposed proprietors purchase of railways rail railway companies railway interest railway mania railway property railway system receipts reduction regard revenue Robert Stephenson scheme second class shareholders shares shillings Sir Robert Peel Stephenson tariff third-class tion traffic trains travelling Watkin Western