Royal Railways with Uniform Rates A proposal for amalgamation of Railways with the General Post Office and adoption of uniform fares and rates for any distance

Mr. Edwin A. Pratt has written several books on the subject and has recently collected all the arguments up to date against State Ownership in his book, “The Case against Railwa...

If this scheme is practicable financially (and one object of this pamphlet is to prove that this is so), then it seems almost superfluous to point out the great advantages of it...

At first sight it seems preposterous that the fare =from London to Glasgow should be only one shilling=, the same as from London to Brighton, or that the fare of one penny from...

The question is, can a sufficient revenue be obtained from the small uniform fares and rates proposed, after providing for working expenses, to pay not only interest on the purc...

If the railway system be purchased by the nation it will be in contemplation as =a business proposition= to repay the capital expended in the purchase, and this means, therefore...

The whole of the existing undertakings of all the Railway Companies in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will be acquired by purchase on some such terms as are set...

of the Post Office itself, including the telegraph and telephone services. The actual effect of the amalgamation of the two services of railways and Post Office on the total wor...

Interested parties not prejudiced--Staff now employed in services to be discarded will be required for increased traffic--Facility of transport will increase trade, and open new...

Receipts from Passengers £45,000,000 ” ” Goods per passenger train 10,000,000 ” ” Goods Train Traffic 64,000,000 ” (Miscellaneous) 10,000,000 -------------- Gross Revenue £129,0...

In the first place allowance must be made for the several economies in management occasioned by the amalgamation of the whole railway systems in one and with the Post Office as...

All reforms meet with opposition, mainly from persons whose interests may be prejudiced by the proposed change--also in many cases by experts. As to the latter, one remembers th...

(1) Although cost of building 200 miles, and hauling train that distance is more than for two miles, yet because regular train service required for whole distance, say, A to Z a...

Writers for and against--All assume that on Nationalisation, system followed of charging according to distance, and to “what traffic will bear”--Fundamental differences between...

=Estimate of annual sum= required according to precedent of purchase of the East Indian Railway Company, namely, by annuities for 73 years, equal to 4¼ per cent. per annum on ma...

=Passenger tickets= vary according to above fares only--no reference to stations or distance. =Goods rates=, payable by stamps vary only according to weight or size of goods, wh...

2. =Economy= of service;--by unification of railways;--abolition of Railway Clearing House, of expenses of varying rates and fares, of multiplication of receiving offices, stati...

=If increase= of traffic no more than above, increase of working expenses negligible, apart from economies made by unification. Expense of carrying 200 passengers no more than 2...