Railways: Their Capital and Dividends, with Statistics of Their Working in Great Britain and Ireland, &c., &c., (Being a Second Volume to Mr. Stephenson's Work on Railways in this SeriesJ. Weale, 1856 - 133 pagine |
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annum Berwick branches capital Carlisle Carriage and Waggon Castlecary Cattle Sundries Centage to Coaching Centage to Gross Centage to Receipts Cleaners Coaching Charges Coaching Receipts Coaching Traffic Charges Coaching Traffic Expenses Coke Coke and Coal Cost of Locomotive Crediton ditto Average Receipts Ditto ditto ditto Ditto Ex Ditto Expenses ditto ditto Goods ditto Driffield ending June 30th Enginemen and Firemen Enniskillen Frosterley Glasgow Gross Receipts Guisborough Half-year Ditto Expenses Half-year ending December Half-year ending January Half-year ending June Horses Junction Lancaster lines Llanelly Locomotive Expenses Mails Maryport Mileage-Passenger Trains Minerals Name of Railway Newry North Western ordinary Parcels Passenger Trains PERMANENT Piloting Preference Loans Rates Receipts per Mile Repairs and Renewals Sheffield signals South Superintendence Maintenance Tallow Taxes and Government Total Engine Mileage Total Locomotive Total Per Mile Total Receipts Total Train Miles Total Working Charges Total Working Expenses Wages to Enginemen Waggon ditto Waggon Repairs Whitehaven وو
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Pagina 4 - These unfortunate results have not arisen from over estimating the revenue (which in almost every instance far exceeded the anticipations of the most sanguine), but from swelling the capital accounts far beyond the original estimates. This increase is traceable to various causes, the principal being the heavy sums expended in parliamentary contests; the exorbitant amounts paid for land and compensation ; extravagant outlay in construction ; ruinous guarantees, leases and purchases of other undertakings...
Pagina 8 - C offered to be purchased at eight per cent. But its directors, following in the wake of other companies, promoted several branches which it was thought would be valuable feeders to the main line. They have proved to be the very opposite, and have sucked it financially dry. The undertaking is consequently in a prostrate condition, paying no dividend, and its £100 stock now selling for £29. It would be an easy matter to adduce numerous other examples, but these will suffice. While the adverse influences...