. The ways of our railways . enty-five miles of dock railway and twelve locomotives,new warehouses for grain and wood, double-storeysheds on the quays, a new coal-barge dock, its owndredging-plant, two new graving-docks—amongst thelargest in the world—several thousand feet of newdeep-water quayage, the finest cold storage andlairage installation in Europe, and many minor im-provements, the present Southampton Dock estatehas little in common with the moribund and decrepitconcern taken over by the London and South-WesternRailway Company only twelve years ago. Thetraffic has increased to a corres
. The ways of our railways . enty-five miles of dock railway and twelve locomotives,new warehouses for grain and wood, double-storeysheds on the quays, a new coal-barge dock, its owndredging-plant, two new graving-docks—amongst thelargest in the world—several thousand feet of newdeep-water quayage, the finest cold storage andlairage installation in Europe, and many minor im-provements, the present Southampton Dock estatehas little in common with the moribund and decrepitconcern taken over by the London and South-WesternRailway Company only twelve years ago. Thetraffic has increased to a corresponding degree—thegoods traffic by about 90 per cent., the coal trafficby over 100 per cent., and the passenger traffic by70 per cent. Unless the work had been done by theState, it is impossible to suggest how the moneynecessary to raise the port to its present excellenceof equipment could have been found ; and railwayownership has the inestimable advantage over Stateownership that it carries with it commercial manage-.
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