Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 282 THE NEW S Pin IT AND THE NEW PATHS. But from the historical point of view the most astonishing factis that not only Parliament and the public, but even thedirectors of the Great Western Railway themselves, should havehad no inkling of the exchange between the various parts of thekingdom which railways were to produce. It was stated andfirmly believed by the advocates of the wider gauge, that the. ISAMBAU
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 282 THE NEW S Pin IT AND THE NEW PATHS. But from the historical point of view the most astonishing factis that not only Parliament and the public, but even thedirectors of the Great Western Railway themselves, should havehad no inkling of the exchange between the various parts of thekingdom which railways were to produce. It was stated andfirmly believed by the advocates of the wider gauge, that the. ISAMBAUD KIXtiDOM liUUXEL.(K^ hy Hetiry Coitsln.^, cifier J. C. llorshy, ) district which the served was entirely separate fromthe rest of England, and therefore that the transhipmentnecessary for goods would be infinitesimal. The idea that infifty years through expresses would bo running from Glasgow toPlymouth, or from Birkenhead to Bournemouth, entered theirheads as little as the necessity for through goods and coalwaggons from the West of England stations to and from theLondon docks and other cities and ports, if their district were tomeet the competition of the rest of England on equal terms. Aclearer proof does not exist that the internal trade of the THE EAILWAY SYSTEM. 283 country .vas in its infancy. The question of gauge Avas notdealt with by ParUament until the year 1846, when an Act lorRegulating the Gauge of Railways (9 & 10 Yict., cap. 5/) waspassed tixinT 4 feet Si inches for future English and Scotch, andsfeet 3 inches for Irish, railways. This A
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