Excerpt from Combination Among Railway Companies The success of the Liverpool and Manchester line led to Parliamentary powers being sought for, and in many cases obtained, for numerous other projects, but at first the pace was not very rapid. For each of the years 1832 to 1835, an average number of eleven Acts of Parliament authorising the construction of railways were passed. In 1836 there was an increase in the rate of progress and twenty - nine Acts were passed. Most of these were for comparatively short lengths of line ...
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Excerpt from Combination Among Railway Companies The success of the Liverpool and Manchester line led to Parliamentary powers being sought for, and in many cases obtained, for numerous other projects, but at first the pace was not very rapid. For each of the years 1832 to 1835, an average number of eleven Acts of Parliament authorising the construction of railways were passed. In 1836 there was an increase in the rate of progress and twenty - nine Acts were passed. Most of these were for comparatively short lengths of line, the most notable exceptions being the London and Birmingham Company, whose original line was 113 miles in length, and the Grand Junction line from Birmingham to Warrington which was eighty - three miles long. These were authorised in 1833. The original Great Western from London to Bristol was authorised in 1836 with a length of 118 miles. This is what one might call the parochial stage in the history of railway development. It was not to be expected that all the possibilities of this new method of transit would be foreseen at once. Speed was slow, accommodation primitive, the public unaccustomed to the travelling habit and again, which was perhaps more important, capital and enterprise were scattered and in many hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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