Railway Rates: English and Foreign

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Another proposal which, though always condemned by competent judges, is still, in some form, very often brought forward, is to charge equal mileage rates.[7] Admitting the impos...

Some rates for import traffic are less than for the same description of goods going in the opposite direction. Such cases are probably rare, and the circumstances of all of them...

“Grouping,” is the name of the familiar arrangement by which collieries or works within a given area are charged equal rates, and are thus enabled to compete on equal terms. In...

In Germany under the “_Seehafen Ausnahme Tarif_,” there are a very considerable number of special rates. For instance, the rate for grain from Bremen to Cologne, a distance of 3...

London, for instance, formerly drew its chief supplies of food from its immediate neighbourhoods. The extensive market gardens which existed, especially in the eastern and weste...

Consumers may profitably bear in mind the report of the Select Committee on Railways (Rates and Fares), of 1881-2. Whilst stating “Your Committee cannot recommend any new legisl...

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“It would seem natural also to expect that where the company were carriers, inasmuch as they performed the identical services which they perform under the second head, and other...

[53] In the Report of May 3, 1882, made by Sir H. Barron to the then Minister for Foreign Affairs (Earl Granville) (part 4 of the “Reports by Her Majesty’s Secretaries of Embass...

Total of State Railways. Private Railways. all Railways. Gross receipts £44,621,504 £4,127,569 £48,749,073 Expenses 24,267,185 2,206,937 26,474,122 ----------- ---------- ------...

So much for the grounds put forward to justify a reduction of rates. Far from proving that working expenses are less on lines in this country, and that this forms grounds for re...

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“These constitute a portion of the leading features of the bill which we report to the House. It is believed that the enactment and enforcement of such a law will provide for th...

Whether the particular line could only be worked at undue cost, or could yield a proper or, indeed, any return upon the capital to be expended, has rarely been considered. The L...

This canal was authorised by an Act of 1794. The canal is between Newbury and Bath, a distance of 57 miles. But the water communication is extended beyond Newbury on the one sid...

If the mode of fixing rates adopted in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany--systems which differ from each other--are suited to those countries they would be inapplicable here....

If lower prices now rule, it is clear there is a very much larger volume of trade now than in the years of high prices. That there has been depression in some branches of the tr...

From the Hague to Amersfoort, 83 kilometres (51 miles) per cow fl. 1·29 (2s. 2d.) From the Hague to Amersfoort, 83 kilometres (51 miles) per sheep fl. 0·33 (6½d.) From the Hague...

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Live animals, perishables and provisions of all kinds, chemical products, works of art (more especially pictures), goods not packed or imperfectly packed, are only carried at ow...

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“And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Company to demand, receive, and recover, to and for the Use and Benefit of the said Company, for the Tonnage of...

“Under this title Mr. Grierson publishes an exhaustive, able and dispassionate _resumé_ of all the conflicting statements, claims, and interests verging round the much vexed que...