Railway Problems: An Inquiry Into the Economic Conditions of Railway Working in Different CountriesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1887 - 560 ページ |
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amount annual appears Austria Austria-Hungary average cost average number average receipts Belgium Board of Trade British railways Caledonian canals capital expenditure carriages cent colonies considerable Denmark dividend economy employés engines England and Wales English lines English railways European countries expenses extent fact figures France fuel Germany Government gross earnings gross receipts higher increase Indian railways Ireland Italy Kilometre labour Lancashire land length of lead less line open locomotive power London and North-Western Luxembourg merchandise Midland mile of line mile of railway mile open mileage millions sterling mineral traffic Norway number of passengers paid Parliament passenger traffic passengers carried Percentage principal Private lines profits proportion rail railroads railway companies railway construction railway system rates and fares reduced regards result returns rolling stock Russia Scotch lines Scotland Statement showing Switzerland third-class tion total number Totals and average traffic carried train mile transport United Kingdom wagons Western whole
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285 ページ - And whereas it is expedient that the Company ' should be enabled to vary the Tolls upon the Railway so as to ' accommodate them to the Circumstances of the Traffic...
535 ページ - ... by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous of using such railways or canals or railways and canals as a continuous line of communication...
518 ページ - ... carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances ; and no reduction or advance in any such tolls shall be made either directly or indirectly in favour of or against any particular company or person travelling upon or using the railway.
530 ページ - And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or the said recited Acts authorized to be made from the provisions of any general Act relating to railways now in force, or which may hereafter pass during this or any future session of Parliament...
429 ページ - I may mention that, only a few months ago, a gentleman of great wealth was selling to a railway company which he had supported in Parliament thirty acres of grass land, of which the admitted agricultural value was £100 an acre, and three acres of limestone, of which the proved value to a quarrymam was £300 an acre.
518 ページ - ... at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
449 ページ - ... no one can recover for an injury of which his own negligence was in whole or in part the proximate cause.
76 ページ - ... and for three years fresh concessions were entirely stopped. But the concessions already made were slowly completed, and by the end of 1851, France had opened 2,124 miles, against 6,889 opened in the United Kingdom. In 1852 the Emperor took French railways in hand, and by a system of great wisdom, singularly adapted to the French people, he put an end to the previously feeble management, and launched into a bold course of railway development.
291 ページ - So, again, if an arrangement were made by a railway company whereby persons bringing a larger amount of traffic to the railway should have their goods carried on more favourable terms than those bringing a less quantity, although the Court might uphold such an arrangement as an ordinary incident of commercial economy, provided the same advantage were extended to all persons under the like circumstances...
534 ページ - A railway administration shall not make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or railway administration, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...