Railway Reform, and Rights of Shareholders and the Public in the Railway Highways of the United Kingdom (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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The question of railway reform is not one for political parties to differ upon, as all classes are deeply interested in obtaining their rights in the use of the future principal highways, except a few directors connected with old lines and their friends.
A great fuss has been made, during the last ten years respecting the debt of eight or ten millions on turnpike roads. At the same time about have been expended on the railway highways, for works which ought to have been executed for less than half the amount.
In addition to this enormous waste of money and charge on the public, there is the operation of the 10 per cent. Clause to make the debt of equal to Incredible 'as this may appear, yet such is the fact: and if the Government neglect to put a stop to this monstrous system, the railway influence will very shortly have more power and patronage than will be found convenient to deal with by any government in the world.
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