The Canal System of England Its Growth And Present Condition With Particular R
The Canal System of England Its Growth And Present Condition With Particular R
H Gordon Thompson
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) A careful revision of the administration, and the establishment of special effective supervision over the whole system. (7) A uniformity of headways under bridges. * In spite of these numerous defects and disadvantages, ^JgJJf for the capacity of the English canals for traffic is very great. This is readily proved by the traffic returns, in which we find that for 1888 the Birmingham canals alone carried nearly 8, 000, 000 tons of traffic or 48, 500 tons per mile of canal. Even these figures g...ive but a poor idea of the carrying capacity of our waterways, for on the 21 miles of the Weaver during the same year, no less than one * It is to be regretted that there is no reference to the " headway under bridges " in the Board of Trade returns for 1888 although this is a most im- portant point in canal navigation. E 54 The Canal System of England. and a half million tons or 75, 000 tons per mile, were transported, and on the busiest portion of this navigation at least 1, 200, 000 tons per mile must have been carried.
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