The Railway Problem, 1870: A Series of PapersJohn Hill (Major-General.) Hicks, 1870 - 70 pages |
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Page 27 - ... seats, transverse to the length of the carriage, and each accommodating two persons. There are from fifteen to twenty of these seats on each side of the avenue, thus affording accommodation for sixty or eighty persons in the carriage. The seats are cushioned ; and their backs, consisting of a single padded board about six inches broad, are so supported that the passenger may at his pleasure turn them either way, so as to have either his face or his back to the engine. At night there is a good...
Page 52 - ... behalf of her Majesty, upon giving to the said company three calendar months' notice in writing of their intention, and upon payment of a sum equal to twenty-five years...
Page 27 - Some of the carriages have a ladies' compartment at one end. If these very large and roomy vehicles were set upon wheels in the same manner as English carriages, it would be impossible to work them over curves of any but very wide radius ; the arrangement adopted is, however, one which renders them even more manageable than our shorter carriages. Each end is supported on a small fourwheeled railway truck, on which it rests on a pivot ; similar to the expedient by which the fore-wheels of an ordinary...
Page 17 - The train consisted of ] 8 wagons, containing 135 bags and bales of American cotton, 200 barrels of flour, 63 sacks of oatmeal, and 34 sacks of malt, weighing altogether 51 tons, 11 cwt., 1 qr.
Page 57 - There has now, for three years, been an almost uninterrupted declension in the market value of railway property. It was dreaded by many cautious persons, in 1845, that the then existing recklessness would bring about disastrous results. The disturbed state of political and commercial matters has undoubtedly contributed to this end; but it is indisputable, that the depreciation is mainly due to the excessive absorption of capital in one particular species of enterprise; the much-dreaded " calls "...
Page 42 - The undertaking,' so reported the minister of public works, ' is regarded by the Belgian government as an establishment which should neither be a burden nor a source of revenue, and requiring merely that it should cover its own expenses, consisting of the charge for maintenance and repairs, with a further sum for the interest and gradual redemption of the invested capital.
Page 6 - ... contemplated ; be it therefore enacted, That every provision contained in any such act or acts respectively limiting the weight to be carried or borne at any one time in any carriage or waggon upon any railway (including the weight of such carriage or waggon) to four tons, shall be and the same is hereby repealed ; and that, notwithstanding...
Page 52 - Act previous to the present session ; and that no branch or extension of less than five miles in length of any such line of railway shall be taken to be a new railway within the provisions of this Act ; and that the said option of purchase shall not be exercised as regards any branch or extension of any railway without including such railway in the purchase, in case the proprietors thereof shall require that the same be so included.
Page 51 - ... for every hundred pounds of such paid-up capital stock, it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, upon giving to the said company three calendar...
Page 51 - WHEREAS it is expedient that the concession of powers for the establishment of new lines of railway should be subjected to such conditions as are hereinafter contained for the benefit of the public : Be...