THE FIRST RAILWAY PASSENGER CARRIAGE
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Identifier: ourironroads00will Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1883">1883 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWilliams__Frederick_Smeeton__1829_1886">Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886 Subjects: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____History">Railroads -- History https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____Great_Britain">Railroads -- Great Britain Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___Bemrose___sons">London : Bemrose & sons Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n33/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/ourironroads00will" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n33/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: riment, would run from Darlington to Stockton and back,except Sunday, making one journey each way each day, andoccupying two hours in its completion. Each passenger was 14 OUR IKON ROADS. allowed to take a package of not exceeding 14 lbs. The fare was is. The great work o\~ the new railway was in the conveyance otminerals and goods. A single engine could draw after it, at therate of five miles an hour, a train weighing ninety-two tons.The rate, too, per ton for the carriage of merchandise was re-duced from $d. to the one-fifth of a penny per mile ; the priceof the carriage o( minerals declined from yd. to ihd. per ton permile; coals at Darlington fell from iSs. to 8^. 6d. per ton ; and,as one consequence, a much larger tonnage passed along therailway than had been anticipated. An export trade, said awriter of the time, is now certain, for an order has been alreadycontracted for for 100,000 tons of coals annually for five yearsby one house alone in London, the produce of which alone to Text Appearing After Image: THE FIRST RAILWAY PASSENGER CARRIAGE. the company will more than pay 4 per cent, on their whole ex-penditure. The shares are at £40 premium each; plenty ofwould-be purchasers, but no sellers. Meanwhile the administration of the line and the line itselfhad to be improved. Additional passing places had to be pro-vided, and the road had to be doubled. Stronger engines weremade ; and when the engine-men put on the power of the steamtoo rapidly, they had to be taught better manners. Therewere no buffers on the trains then, the wagons got knocked to-gether most cruelly, and the coals were thrown out of them tothe great annoyance of the coalowners, who could not deliverthem as put into the wagons. The Corporation of the borough of Stockton welcomed therailway to their port, but they acted in a shortsighted manneras regarded the accommodation of the traffic which it brought. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY PROJECTED. 15 The Stockton and Darlington Company were accordingly com-pelled to prov Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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