Railway Problems: An Inquiry Into the Economic Conditions of Railway Working in Different CountriesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1887 - 560 páginas |
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Página 265 - And whereas it is expedient that the Company ' should be enabled to vary the Tolls upon the Railway so as to ' accommodate them to the Circumstances of the Traffic...
Página 507 - ... by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous of using such railways or canals or railways and canals as a continuous line of communication...
Página 492 - ... carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances ; and no reduction or advance in any such tolls shall be made either directly or indirectly in favour of or against any particular company or person travelling upon or using the railway.
Página 502 - And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or the said recited Acts authorized to be made from the provisions of any general Act relating to railways now in force, or which may hereafter pass during this or any future session of Parliament...
Página 492 - ... at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
Página 427 - ... no one can recover for an injury of which his own negligence was in whole or in part the proximate cause.
Página 60 - ... and for three years fresh concessions were entirely stopped. But the concessions already made were slowly completed, and by the end of 1851, France had opened 2,124 miles, against 6,889 opened in the United Kingdom. In 1852 the Emperor took French railways in hand, and by a system of great wisdom, singularly adapted to the French people, he put an end to the previously feeble management, and launched into a bold course of railway development.
Página 407 - As an every day instance, I may mention that, only a few months, ago a gentleman of great wealth was selling to a railway company which he had supported in Parliament, thirty acres of grass land, of which the admitted agricultural value was 100?. an acre, and three acres of limestone, of which the proved value to a quarrymaii was 300?..
Página 509 - It shall be lawful for any company or person complaining against any such companies or company of anything done, or of any omission made in violation or contravention of this act, to apply in a summary way, by motion or summons, in England, to her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, or in Ireland to any of her Majesty's Superior Courts in...
Página 271 - So, again, if an arrangement were made by a railway company whereby persons bringing a larger amount of traffic to the railway should have their goods carried on more favourable terms than those bringing a less quantity, although the Court might uphold such an arrangement as an ordinary incident of commercial economy, provided the same advantage were extended to all persons under the like circumstances...