The Railway Shareholder's Manual; Or, Practical Guide to All the Railways in the World, Completed, in Progress, and Projected: Forming an Entire Railway Synopsis, Indispensable to All Interested in Railway Locomotion. To which is Added a Correct List of the Offices and Officers of Existing and Projected RailwaysEffingham Wilson, 1847 - 421 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Amalgamated annum Birkenhead Birmingham Branch Brighton Bristol Caledonian Caledonian Railway Canal Capital Account Carlisle cent chains Chester Commences in junction construction cost per mile dividend Dublin Eastern Counties Eastern Counties Railway Engineer Esqrs Exeter expended to ditto Extension fares February and August feet 8 inches furlongs Gauge given to Bill Glasgow Goole Grand Junction Grimsby Half-yearly Meetings interest on Calls July 27 Junction Railway June 26 Kilmarnock Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool loan or mortgage London and Birmingham London and North-Western Manchester Manchester and Leeds mortgage Total sum North Midland Oxford paid Paisley passengers Passes Petition presented Feb Preston radius of curve Rail Railway Companies Railway.-Offices raised by shares Royal Assent given ruling gradients Secretary Session of 1846 shares Ditto ditto Sheffield Shrewsbury smallest radius Southampton steepest gradient total length Total sum authorised Total sum received tunnels Valley Western Railway Whole Shares Withdrn Wolverhampton yards in length
Popular passages
Page lxxii - shall mean the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations : The word
Page lxviii - A Senator shall not be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page lxxii - An Act for Consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts with respect to the Constitution of Companies incorporated for carrying on Undertakings of a Public Nature 39 8 VICT., CAP.
Page 394 - ... that the Interest or Discount on any sum, for any number of days, at any of the above rates, may be obtained by the inspection of one page only. Each Rate occupies eighty pages ; the last five of which are devoted to the same number of pounds from 1 to 11 months, and from 1 to 10 years. They are also accompanied with Tables of Time and Brokerage, being altogether a vast improvement on Thompson and others. By TB GUMERSALL, Accountant, London.. "This work is pre-eminently distinguished from all...
Page 404 - I should feel in being summoned to pronounce a show-oration before all the kings and nobles on earth. In truth, it is time to have done with shows. The age is too stirring, we are pressed on by too solemn interests, to be justified in making speeches for self-display or mere amusement. He who cannot say something in sympathy with, or in aid of the great movements of humanity, might as well hold his peace.
Page lxxviii - ... that, except as hereinafter specially provided, this Act shall not extend to any company for executing any bridge, road, cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, waterwork, navigation, tunnel, archway, railway, pier, port, harbour, ferry, or dock which cannot be carried into execution without obtaining the authority of Parliament...
Page lxvi - An Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking of lands for undertakings of a public nature...
Page lxx - Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that after the passing of this act it shall not be lawful (except as hereinafter excepted) to construct any railway for the conveyance of pas- on what ganpe senders on any gauge other than four feet eight inches and half JJ'jJJJ* sba...
Page lxxiv - Lords of the said committee may order and direct every railway company to make up and deliver to them returns, according to a form to be provided by the Lords of the said committee, of the aggregate traffic in passengers, according to the several classes, and of the aggregate traffic in cattle and goods respectively on the said railway...
Page 393 - OREsHAnhved in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth,— Reigns, not exceeded in interest by any period of our history ; and never was a man's life more actively and usefully spent in benefiting the land of his birth, and enriching its metropolis.