Report Relative to Railways Between Edinburgh and Glasgow: By a Special Committee Appointed by the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Canal Company. Edinburgh, N. Blackwood [etc.] |
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Page 37 - Report to the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, on the comparative merits of locomotive and fixed engines, as a moving power.
Page 17 - ... immense traffic between Liverpool and Manchester amply justifies this outlay. But with reference to any similar scheme, in extension of the Railway system, it is desirable the projectors should impartially calculate the cost of the work, as well as the income it may be expected to produce; and especially that they should make an ample allowance beyond the first estimate of the expenditure, before they embark in the undertaking.
Page 11 - The ground has been surveyed by eminent engineers, and the estimated expense of a railroad, upon the most improved construction, including the charge for locomotive engines to be employed on the line, and other contingencies, is £400,000, -which sum it is proposed to raise in 4,000 shares of £100 each.
Page 17 - But, with reference to any similar scheme in extension of the railroad system, it is desirable the projectors should impartially calculate the cost of the work, as well as the income it may be expected to produce; and, especially, that they should make an ample allowance beyond the first estimate of the expenditure, before they embark in the undertaking.
Page 40 - ... for weeks together. Vessels, too, were often arrested in their progress up the Mersey, by contrary winds, and exposed to loss and damage from tempestuous weather. The average length of the passage was thirty-six hours; but. owing to the various causes of delay just enumerated, there have been instances of goods being a longer time on the way (by water) from Liverpool to Manchester, than from New York to Liverpool! In 1824, Mr. Sanders, to whom the plan of a rail-way...
Page 28 - Walker were requested to proceed to Darlington, and the neighbourhood of Newcastle, to inspect the different railways in those districts, and to ascertain, by a thorough investigation into the power of the engines, the cost of working them, and their actual performance, the comparative merits of the two descriptions of moving power.
Page 35 - America ; in 1824, 409,670 bags ; and in 1829, 640,998. In 1790, the first steam-engine was set up in Manchester; in 1824, there were 200 steam-engines there : — in 1814, there was not one power-loom in Manchester ; in 1824, there were 30,000. In 1824, the average quantity of raw and manufactured goods transmitted between the two towns was 1000 tons daily, and it now amounts to 1300 tons; about 1000 of which pass from Liverpool to Manchester, and 300 from Manchester to Liyerpool.
Page 40 - The bulk of this immense traffic was carried by "means of two canals. Goods had to be first sent up the river Mersey to Runcorn, a distance of about twenty miles, and thence by one of the two canals to Manchester, making the whole distance between the two towns about fifty miles. In summer...
Page 22 - There will always be many, the committee say, who will " prefer travelling by a route through richly diversified scenery to one well known to be so very bleak and barren as almost to beggar description.
Page 8 - yet hadtimeto go through the calculations in order " to prove Mr Baird's estimate : it appears to have " been made out with great care...