# Remarks on the Proposed Railway Between Birmingham and London

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54179

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## Summary

WITHOUT minutely inquiring into the origin of the different modes of conveyance at present existing in this country and others for passengers and goods, I shall content myself with asking, Why were canals first established? and What was the great benefit arising from them, which caused so much as fifteen hundred miles in extent to be executed in less than a quarter of a century, at a cost of nearly twenty millions of money, and for the most part during a time of war, when the highest rate of taxation prevailed?

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarks-on-the-proposed-railway-between-birmingham-and-london-54179/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarks-on-the-proposed-railway-between-birmingham-and-london-54179/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/remarks-on-the-proposed-railway-between-birmingham-and-london-54179/chapters/3/index.md)