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History of Inland Transport 



Railway Club, The : 430 

 Railway directors, Functions of: 



37 

 Railway electrification : 492, 494- 



5, 57 



Railway Guards' Universal Friendly 

 Society : 438 



Railway mania, 1845-6 : 271-5 



Railway nationalisation: 279-81, 

 511-2 



Railway rates : Early proposals for 

 revision, 260-1, 279-80 ; canals 

 and railway rates, 310 ; basis 

 on which early rates fixed, 

 335~7 > early classification, 

 337-40 ; revision of rates by 

 Board of Trade commissioners, 

 338-40 ; Confirmation Acts of 

 1891-2, 340-1 ; Act of 1894, 

 342 ; restrictions on companies, 

 342-3 ; equal mileage rates, 

 344 ; " cost of service," 344-5 ; 

 "what the traffic will bear," 

 34S> 347 > present classification, 

 345-6 ; sea competition, 347- 

 8 ; " anomalies," 348 ; sliding 

 scale principle, 349 ; American 

 railway rates, 349-50, 357 ; 

 exceptional rates, 350-1 ; 

 owner's risk rates, 351-2 ; 

 preferential rates, 353~4 ; 

 agricultural interests, 353-4, 

 355 ; machinery for dealing 

 with traders' grievances, 355- 

 6 ; comparisons with Con- 

 tinental rates, 357-8 ; Govern- 

 ment promise of legislation in 

 respect to increases, 448, 511 ; 

 survival of fittest, 494-5 ; com- 

 petition of omnibuses and elec- 

 tric tramways, 496 ; effect on 

 suburban traffic, 496-7 ; com- 

 petition of private motors, 

 498 ; passenger journeys, 498- 

 9 ; suburban goods transport, 

 499-500 ; road v. rail, 501-3; 

 railway system complete, 506 ; 

 needs of to-day, 507 ; railway 

 agreements, 508-9 ; Depart- 

 mental Committee, 509-10; 

 railway nationalisation, 511- 

 12 



Railway Savings Banks : 432 



Railway shareholders : 263-4, 377 

 Railway Signalling, Schools of: 



421-3 

 Railway strikes : 447, 450, 503, 



5!2 



Railway system : Length of line, 

 359 ; single track, 359 ; length 

 of track, 360 ; rolling stock, 

 360 ; traffic statistics, 361 ; 

 railway capital, 361 ; gross 

 receipts and expenditure, 361 ; 

 dividends, 362 - 3 ; share- 

 holders and their holdings, 

 363-4 ; taxation, 364-75 

 Railway Temperance Unions : 432 

 Railway warehouses : 390-4 

 Railways : Rise of the coal trade, 

 195-7 ; wooden rails adopted 

 at collieries, 198-200; intro- 

 duction of cast-iron wheels, 

 201 ; double rails, 203 ; iron 

 " plates," 203 ; cast-iron rails, 

 203 ; flanged rails, 205 ; edge 

 rails, 206 ; wrought-iron rails, 

 206 ; significance of expression 

 "iron" railway, 207 ; inclined 

 planes and gravity, 208 ; sta- 

 tionary engines, 208 ; length 

 and character of colliery lines, 

 209 ; railways adopted by canal 

 companies, 210-13 ; position 

 in South Wales, 213-4; canal 

 interests overcome the first pro- 

 posed competing railway, 214- 

 9 ; railways supplement 

 canals, 219-21 ; their superi- 

 ority recognised, 220-1 ; rail- 

 ways before 1825, 222 ; Surrey 

 Iron Rail-way, 223-5 > Stock- 

 ton and Darlington, 225-8 ; 

 advocates of general railways, 

 229-30 ; Liverpool and Man- 

 chester Railway, 230-40 ; op- 

 position of canal companies, 

 234-8 ; Leicester and Swan- 

 nington Railway, 242-4 ; hos- 

 tility to railways, 245-9 ; 

 London and Birmingham Rail- 

 way, 249 - 52 ; landowners 

 and railways, 250-1, 252-5 ; 

 cost of Parliamentary proceed- 

 ings, 255-7 ; canal precedents 

 inspire State policy, 258 ; com- 



