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Original Articles. 



[Oct., 



Great Western (continued) : — 



South Wales 



Stourbridge 



Tenbury 



Tenbury and Bewdley 



Witney 



Worcester and Hereford 



London and North- Western : — ■ 



Main Line and Branches ....... 



Wapping Tunnel, Liverpool . 



Waterloo Tunnel, Liverpool 



Chester and Holyhead 



Knighton 



Lancaster and Carlisle . . ... . • • 



Shropshire Union (except Coalport Branch) . 



Ditto Coalport Branch 



South Staffordshire 



St. George's Harbour 



St. Helen's 



Warrington and Stockport 



North British and Branches (except as under) . . 



Burntisland, to Perth 1 



Dundee and all Branches J 



St. Andrew's 



Bridge at bottom of Pittencrief incline . . . 



Border Counties 1 



Border Union ] 



Carlisle and Silloth Bay I 



Port Carlisle I 



North-Eastern (except as under) 



Marsh Lane (Leeds) Station 



Newcastle and Carlisle Section 



Stockton and Darlington Section 



Scottish Central and Branches 



Width of 

 Load 



Ft. In. 

 10 6 



9 



8 6 



9 



8 10 



9 



9 0- 



9 



'8 3 



9 

 9 13 



8 9 



8 3 



9 

 9 



8 



9 



9 



9 



8 



9 



9 



8 



8 6 



8 4 



Height in 

 Centre. 



Ft. In. 

 15 



13 11 6 



Height at 

 Side. 



13 



13 3 



12 2 



13 3 



13 11 



14 

 13 3 

 13 6 

 13 6 

 13 

 13 3 



12 



13 6 



12 



13 6 



12 2 



8 9 



12 



13 6 



13 6 



13 "6 



15 

 13 6 

 13 8 



Ft. In. 

 13 



11 6 



10 7 



8 



10 7 

 13 9i 



12 



11 4 



11 5 



10 10 



12 



11 4 

 11 



10 8 



11 



7 6 



11 



13 



11 



11 



10 6 



11 6 



11 2 



This subject has also been investigated in France. The Commis- 

 sioners who were appointed after the murder of M. Poinsot to 

 report upon the security of passengers in railway trains, state in their 

 report of the 12th April, 1861 :-r-" Le controle de route, il faut le 

 reconnaitre, sera, quoi qu'on fasse, toujours accompagne d'un certain 

 peril. Le prescrire d'une maniere absolu sur toutes les lignes et en 

 tous les points, ce serait pour l'administration assumer la respon- 

 sabilite de graves accidents et jouer un role facheux aupres des agents 

 des compagnies. Independamment de cette consideration, nous avons 

 vu que, dans un grand nombre d'ouvrages, il fandrait elargir l'accote- 

 ment en retrecissant l'entrevoie, mais que ce retrecissement ne 

 pouvait depasser certaines limites." 



The carriages in France vary in width from 8' 6" to 8' 8", and 

 the intermediate space between the rails and the side-works is 4' 2%" 

 in the majority of cases, though sometimes less. The French Com- 

 missioners considered that the width of a door, or 2 feet in the clear, 



