$22 OF THE ADVANTAGES OF RAIL ROADS. 



out?nd home"' Iowin S P Ian : four rail-ways fliould be laid on the road, raited 

 aad two for light. on fleepers offtone, fo that their upper furface fliould ftand 

 about four inches above the road. They fliould be made hol- 

 low from the bottom upwards, for ftrength and to fave ex-» 

 pence broad at bottom, and rounded at the top, to prevent 

 the'Iodgment of dirt and duft. On thefe fliould run light wag- 

 gons, each containing not more than one tun and a half weight. 

 I have mentioned four rail-ways. The two infide roads fliould 

 be appropriated for waggons, and the two external rail-ways 

 for coaches and chaife*, &e. The left hand rail-way inva- 

 riably to be followed by each fpecies of carriage on its own 

 road ; fo as to prevent the poflibility of any carriages meeting 

 on the fame rail-way. By appropriating the exterior tracks 

 to light carriages, thofe which wiflied to pafs others might 

 turn off upon the waggon road, and relume their proper place 

 The carriages to after they had gone by the carriage they wiflied to pafs. Now 

 ing onplatfornis to accomm °date coaches and chaifes, &c. to thefe rail-ways, 

 or cradles adap- I. would have them carried, wheels and all, in cradles or plat- 

 ted to the rail. f oims . xvhichjlwidd have ziheels adapted to the rail-iuays. By 

 thefe means no alteration would be neceflary in any of the 

 carriages commonly ufed ; but the horfes of any coach or 

 chaife might, as foon as they had got out of town, walk up 

 an inclined plane into the cradle or platform, and draw their 

 refpedive carriages after them : the horfes fliould then walk 

 out at the fartheft end of the platform, upon the road belong- 

 ing to the rail-ways. They would then draw the chaife not 

 upon its own wheels, but upon the wheels of the platform or 

 cradle in which the chaife fliould be detained. 

 Expefted rate of p or ftage-coaches fimilar platforms fliould be provided, and 

 pafiengers', nx in thefe fix infide and fix outfide paflengers might travel at the 

 miles an hour by rate of fix miles an hour with one horfe. Hackney, or gen- 

 r "' ' tlemen\s chaifes might go at the rale of eight miles an hour 

 with one horfe, without interruption or delay. 

 Hills avoided. Where. hills intervene,, new roads rauit be made following 



the courfe of dreams that wind between the hills, a moderate 

 acclivity would not obftrucl the progrefs of thefe carnages, 

 that is to fay, a rife of one foot in ten. 

 Numerous be- Every perfon converfant in thefe. fubjects, muft know how 

 febeme. much within bounds I fpeak with refpeel to the eafe of cTraught 



upon rail-ways. The faving of horfes and their food, the 

 * faving of wear and tear of carriages, the increafed diitance to 



which 



