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Page 5 - ... to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Page 71 - We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety.
Page 71 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 70 - As to those persons who speculate on making railways generally throughout the kingdom, and superseding all the canals, all the wagons, mails and stage coaches, post-chaises and, in short, every other mode of conveyance, by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of notice.
Page 13 - Companies respectively shall pay a fixed rate per mile, for such carriages and waggons not their own property, as they may use ; and a further sum per day by way of fine or demurrage for detention, if kept beyond a prescribed length of time : and, lastly, that no direct settlement shall take place between the Companies in respect of any traffic, the accounts of which have passed through the Railway Clearing House.
Page 28 - Under every head of charge, by referring to the accounts of the London and Birmingham, the Grand Junction, and the Liverpool and Manchester Companies...
Page 13 - Secondly, that the companies respectively shall pay a fixed rate per mile, for such carriages and waggons not their own property, as they may use ; and a further sum per day by way of fine or demurrage for detention, if kept beyond a prescribed length of time ; and lastly...
Page 55 - The average weight of a train on the branch lines of the leading railways is 56 tons...
Page 8 - ... acting under special conditions. All that it now behoves us to notice is, that we have here a large and powerful body whose interests are ever pressing on railway extension irrespective of its intrinsic propriety. The great change in the attitude of the Legislature towards railways from ' the extreme of determined rejection or dilatory ' acquiescence to the opposite extreme of unlimited concession,' was simultaneous with the change above described.
Page 62 - If at the time of such augmentation of capital taking place the existing shares be not at a premium, then such new shares may be of such amount, and may be issued in such manner, and on such terms, as the company shall think fit And with respect to the consolidation of the shares into stock, be it enacted as follows : 61.