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Excerpt from What Will Parliament Do With the Railways?
Ou the first introduction of the system it was received with distrust by all, and with aversion by many. The proprietors and occupiers of land were alarmed, and the depreciation and ruin of their property were foretold. Under such circumstances the difficulties in obtaining Acts from the legislature were great, and it was only after a succession of failures that a Company could hope to obtain the sanction of Parliament to its plan. 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.
