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 . rate 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
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 . rate 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 Act was the outcome ofthe report of a Gauge Commission of the previous yeal^which conducted a careful inquiry. The experiu>cnts mcluded. GREAT WKSTEltX EXGIXES.(from a print in the Ficforia and AlMrt Museum.) very interesting tests of speed on the broad gauge Great Westernbetween Paddington and Didcot, and narrow gauge Great Northof England between York and Darlington, in which the broadcrauge attained an average speed of over 50 miles an hour witha ti-ain of SO tons, the narrow gauge with a tram of the sameweight attaining 44 miles. On grounds other than thoseof speed, however, the Royal Commissioners recommendedthe narrow gauge for future railways. The wisdom ot theirview was confirmed when the Great Western in 1892 con-verted the only remaining broad gauge sections of its systemto the normal width. No very special incidents marked the passing ot Bills torp The company is still extant, bnt its line is part of the North-Easternsystem.]
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