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Excerpt from Railways and Their Rates: With an Appendix on the British Canal Problem
The following pages represent an attempt to set before traders and general readers the actual position of British railways with regard to (i) the complaints advanced from time to time on the subject of rates and charges, and (2) the origin, Operation, and circumstances Of our own railways as compared with those of railways abroad, and especially on the Continent of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.