Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System: A History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and a Record of Its Results |
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Albert Hill Auckland authorised Barnard Castle Bill Bishop Auckland boiler branch bridge Brusselton canal carriage carried cent Cleveland coach coal-field collieries committee company's construction cost cylinder Darlington Railway Company directors district Dixon Edward Pease employed erected export extension favour feet 6 inches feet diameter George Stephenson Hartlepool Henry Pease horses inches diameter increase interest iron trade John Jonathan Backhouse Joseph Pease Killingworth labours line of railway lington Liverpool and Manchester locomotive engines London malleable iron ment Messrs Mewburn Meynell Middlesbrough miles an hour mills nearly Newcastle North of England North-Eastern Railway number of passengers opened Parliament passed Pease's port present projected promoters proposed proprietors public railway rail railway system remarkable revenue road Saltburn shareholders Shildon shipment of coals South Durham steam Stockton and Darlington survey Tees Timothy Hackworth tion tons total number town traffic tramroad travelling tubes undertaking wagons Wear Valley wheels Yarm
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Page 66 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculist will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, or twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense.
Page 160 - Railways add enormously to the national wealth. More than twenty-five years ago it was proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons, from facts and figures which I then adduced, that the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, of which I was the engineer, and which then formed the principal railway connection...
Page 259 - December 26, 1767. During the excited debate in Congress in 1820, on the question of excluding slavery from Missouri, the eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke made great use of this phrase, which was caught up and re-echoed by every newspaper in the land, and thus gained a proverbial celebrity, which it still retains.
Page 224 - Stephenson," the engineer of the London and Birmingham line : — " In every parish through which Robert Stephenson passed, he " was eyed with suspicion by the inhabitants, and not seldom ". menaced by violence. The aristocracy regarded the irruption as " an interference with territorial rights. The humbler classes were " not less exasperated, as they feared the railway movement would " injure those industrial interests by which they lived. In London, " journalists and pamphleteers distributed criticisms...
Page 82 - The coach had no springs of any kind, and yet the motion was fully as easy as in any coach on the road. A very slight jolt is felt, accompanied with a click or rattle, every time the wheels pass over the joints of the several rails, and also at the breaks which occur at the different passing places, and then, if anything, feels harsher than in a coach.
Page 68 - Darlington that evening will find conveyances in waiting for their accommodation, to start from the company's wharf there precisely at seven o'clock. "The company take this opportunity of enjoining on all their workpeople that attention to sobriety and decorum which they have hitherto had the pleasure of observing. "The committee give this...
Page 81 - FRIDAY, From Darlington at half-past 7 in the Morning, and will reach Stockton about half-past 9 ; the Coach will set off from the latter place on its return at 3 in the Afternoon, and reach...
Page 24 - Yarm, is, under existing circumstances, preferable 178 to a canal; that such a communication would be highly advantageous to the interests of the south and east parts of the county of Durham, and of Cleveland and other parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire, as well as profitable to those who engage in the undertaking; and that it is of importance to carry it into effect with as little delay as possible.
Page 39 - Also the comparative cost of malleable iron and cast-iron rails, winning and preparing the blocks of stone, and all materials wanted to complete the line. I could not do this for less than £140, allowing me to be moderately paid. I assure you, in completing the undertaking, I will act with that economy which would influence me if the whole of the work was my own.
Page 38 - In making thy survey, it must be borne in mind that this is for a great public way, and to remain as long as any coal in the district remains. Its construction must be solid, and as little machinery introduced as possible — in fact, we wish thee to proceed in all thy levels, estimates, and calculations, with that care and economy which would influence thee if the work was thy own ; and it would be well to let comparative estimates be formed, as to the expense of a double and single railway, and...