A Review of Railways and Railway Legislation at Home and Abroad, Volumen1W. Pickering, 1847 - 103 páginas |
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Página 28 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Página 28 - We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction, limit the speed to eight or nine miles an hour, which we entirely agree with Mr. Sylvester is as great as can be ventured on with safety.
Página 27 - As to those persons," said the Quarterly Review, "who speculate on making railways generally throughout the kingdom, and superseding all the canals, all the wagons, mails, and stagecoaches, post-chaises, and, in short, every other mode of conveyance, by land and by water, we deem them and their visionary schemes unworthy of notice.
Página 28 - No doubt it would ; for if ponderous bodies, moving with a velocity of ten or twelve miles an hour, were to impinge on any sudden obstruction, or a wheel break, they would be shattered like glass bottles dashed on a pavement ; then what would become of the Woolwich rail-road passengers, in such a case, whirling along at sixteen or eighteen miles an hour, as Mr. Telford says,
Página 27 - It is true that we, who, in this age, are accustomed to roll along our hard and even roads at the rate of eight or nine miles an hour...
Página 68 - After mature consideration your Committee have come to the conclusion that it is absolutely necessary that some department of the Executive Government, so constituted as to command general respect and confidence, should be charged with the supervision of railways and canals, with full power to enforce such regulations as may from time to time appear indispensable for the accommodation and general interests of the public.
Página 28 - We find a countryman of Mr. Telford writing thus : ' We shall be carried at the rate of 400 miles a day, with all the ease we now enjoy in a steam-boat, but without the annoyance of sea-sickness, or the danger of being burned or drowned.
Página 27 - We are not surprized that Mr. Peter Moore and some of his co-directors, who probably never saw a steam-engine or a railWay, should put their names to such pure nonsense as this ; but we hardly expected that Mr. Telford, the engineer, should have lent it the sanction of his, as it must be presumed he has done; it calls however to our recollection the logic by which...
Página 55 - ... railway companies is an indication and a measure of the increased accommodation to the traffic of the country which they have afforded, inasmuch as it has not been so much by force of statutory enactments granting to them special privileges, as by superior cheapness, security, and rapidity of travelling, that their command of the intercourse of their districts has been acquired ; and the Committee doubt whether the establishment of railways in this country does not afford a more remarkable instance...
Página 69 - I 3 general advantage of the country, and most serviceable to its various local interests. They recommend that all propositions, or any scheme of railway, should, in the first instance, be submitted to this board, who should require the promoters to lay before them some general statement of its objects and advantages, and such evidences of their capability and bona fide intentions as might be deemed a sufficient guarantee on which to sanction further proceedings.