Railway Reform: Its Importance And Practicability Considered As Affecting the Nation, the Shareholders, And the Government
Railway Reform: Its Importance And Practicability Considered As Affecting the Nation, the Shareholders, And the Government
William Galt
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The tariff of the " goods " department varies, as may be supposed, very much, according to the value of the multifarious kinds of merchandise carried ; these are generally divided into four classes, with the annexed charges permitted by Parliament. They vary somewhat on different lines, but the following may be taken as the average rates allowed : — h 2 100 1st class. — Lime, limestone, manure, and stone for the repairing of roads, three halfpence per ton per mile, or 100 tons one mile for 12s.... 6d. 2nd class. — Coal, coke, charcoal, stones for building, brick, tiles, iron ore, and bar iron, two- pence halfpenny per ton, or 100 tons one mile for £1 0s. lOd. 3rd class. — Sugar, grain, flour, meal, potatoes, linen, cot- ton, yarn, earthenware, timber, deals, three- pence halfpenny per ton per mile, or for 100 tons one mile, £l 9s. 2d. 4th class. — Cotton and other wools, drugs, fish, manufac- tured goods, and all other merchandise, fourpence halfpenny per ton per mile, or 100 tons one mile for £1 17s.
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