. The ways of our railways . THE RAILWAY PARK, CREWE, L. AND N. W. THE MHMOKIAI. RAILWAY TOWNS. 309 where a population of about 800 people is lodged ineleven blocks of houses, the total number of separatedwellings being 120. Allotment gardens are alsoprovided by the railway company, and an institutesimilar to those already mentioned. At Crewe, theLondon and North-Western has built and owns over800 houses, and the Great Western has about 300at Swindon. This is also about the number ownedat Wolverton and EarlestowTi by the North-Western,which also has over 250 at Willesden and 120 eachat Rug
. The ways of our railways . THE RAILWAY PARK, CREWE, L. AND N. W. THE MHMOKIAI. RAILWAY TOWNS. 309 where a population of about 800 people is lodged ineleven blocks of houses, the total number of separatedwellings being 120. Allotment gardens are alsoprovided by the railway company, and an institutesimilar to those already mentioned. At Crewe, theLondon and North-Western has built and owns over800 houses, and the Great Western has about 300at Swindon. This is also about the number ownedat Wolverton and EarlestowTi by the North-Western,which also has over 250 at Willesden and 120 eachat Rugby and Watford. .Altogether the last-namedcompany has 5,152 houses and cottages occupiedby members of its staff, the majority of which axelet at rentals of from one shilling and sixpence tofour shillings and sixpence a week. The privilegeof living in a companys cottage is very much is, of course, given to such men as it maybe necessary to call up in cases of emergency—thecottages being in close proximity to the lines—andin ninety-five cases on
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