Excerpt from Railway Wonders of the World As the promoters Of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway were engaged upon a pioneer undertaking, and were quite ignorant of the revenue earning capabilities of the rail way, they were extremely modest in their prophecies concerning traffic earnings. They estimated that the passenger business would bring in and the movement of goods about respectively, per annum, making a total of They were startled by the results Of the first year's Operations, which amounted to Of which accrued ...
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Excerpt from Railway Wonders of the World As the promoters Of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway were engaged upon a pioneer undertaking, and were quite ignorant of the revenue earning capabilities of the rail way, they were extremely modest in their prophecies concerning traffic earnings. They estimated that the passenger business would bring in and the movement of goods about respectively, per annum, making a total of They were startled by the results Of the first year's Operations, which amounted to Of which accrued from the goods traffic. Is it Surprising that such a result of the first year's working of the first com mercial railway should have fired the imaginations of other promoters, and created innumerable castles in the air dreams which were not shattered until'the pricking of the railway bubble a quarter of a century later. 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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