. Railway Times . d allow ofa much greater distribution of population. Railway sidingscan be taken, not only into works, but into various depart-ments of works where the construction of branch canalswould be impossible. It may thus be possible for coal, cokeand ironstone, for instance, to be taken up to the very furnacewhere they arc wanted, and for pig-iron to be loaded directon to the trucks for conveyance, without break of gauge,in .1 works similarly connected with any other line of railwayin Great Britain. The balance of advantage may, in fact,be in favour of the railway even where there i
. Railway Times . d allow ofa much greater distribution of population. Railway sidingscan be taken, not only into works, but into various depart-ments of works where the construction of branch canalswould be impossible. It may thus be possible for coal, cokeand ironstone, for instance, to be taken up to the very furnacewhere they arc wanted, and for pig-iron to be loaded directon to the trucks for conveyance, without break of gauge,in .1 works similarly connected with any other line of railwayin Great Britain. The balance of advantage may, in fact,be in favour of the railway even where there is a canal along-side ; and it is found, in practice, that manufacturers witha canal on one side of their works arc rarely satisfied unlessthey also have a railway on the other. or steel works than could be compensated for by any savingon a difference in cost between the two systems of Colson, the eminent French authority on transport ques-tnuis, estimates that for a canal on which such delavs as these. Legging Boats through Gosty Hill Tunnel. may occur to have any economic advantage over a railway,there should be a difference in favour of its charges to theextent of at least 30 or 40 per cent.
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