INDEX

Agriculture and canals, [16], [147]-[150]
Aire and Calder Navigation, [86], [132], [135]
Allport, Sir James, [37], [81]
Aqueducts, [124]
Association of Chambers of Commerce, [4], [5]
Barnsley Canal, [26]
Belgium, waterways in, [93]-[96], [97]
Birmingham Canal, [26], [37], [57]-[73], [120], [125]
Boats, size of, [32], [69], [130]
Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, [26]
Brecon Canal, [45]
Bridgewater Canal, [13]-[15], [21], [23]-[24], [124]
Bridgewater, Duke of, [13]-[15], [23]
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, [45]
Brindley, James, [14]-[15], [16], [124]
Brunner, Sir John T., [4]
Buckley, Mr R. B., [141]
Caledonian Railway Company, [50]-[54]
Canada, waterways in, [128]-[129]
Canals, earliest, in England, [13]-[22];
canal mania, [16];
passenger traffic, [18]-[19];
shares and dividends, [21], [26], [27];
tolls and charges, [23]-[25], [27]-[30];
handicapped, [33];
attitude towards railways, [34]-[38];
Kennet and Avon, [38]-[45];
Shropshire Union, [47]-[50];
Forth and Clyde, [50]-[54];
"strangulation" theory, [54]-[55];
Birmingham Canal, [57]-[73];
coal traffic, [84]-[89];
canals and waterways on the Continent, [93]-[103];
in the United States, [104]-[118];
in England, [119]-[141];
in Canada, [128]-[129];
conclusions and recommendations, [142]-[150]
Capitalists, attitude of, [3]
Carnegie, Mr, [110]
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, [109]
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, [109]
Chesterfield Canal, [46], [123]
Child, Messrs, [15]
Coal, [13], [21], [29]-[30], [40], [51]-[53], [81]-[89]
Consignments, sizes of, [78]
Continental conditions, [11], [93]-[103], [139], [140], [141]
Cost of reconstruction, [132]-[136]
Cotton, raw, [89]-[91]
Coventry Canal, [26]
Cox, M.P., Mr Harold, [140]
Cromford Canal, [123]
Cumming, Mr T. G., [21], [147]-[148]
Dixon, Professor F. H., [110], [117]
Dredging, [43]
Electrical installations, [130]
Ellesmere Canal, [26], [47], [124]
Engineers and canal question, [2]
Erie Canal, the, [105]-[111], [116]
Fish, Mr Stuyvesant, [114]-[115]
Forth and Clyde Navigation, [50]-[54]
France, waterways in, [100], [102]
Frost on canals, [24], [30], [77]
Gentleman's Magazine, [26]
Geographical conditions, [11], [94]-[96], [98]-[100]
Germany, waterways in, [94], [97], [100]-[102]
Glass, Mr John, [129]
Government guarantee, [4]
Grand Junction Canal, [26], [39], [120], [123]
Grand Western Canal, [45]
Great Northern Railway, [31], [83]
Great Western Railway Company, [38]-[45], [67], [68], [70]
Grinling, Mr C. H., [30]
Hertslet, Sir E. Cecil, [94]
Holland, waterways in, [77], [94], [96]
Huddersfield Narrow Canal, [120], [123]
Hudson, George, [30]
Inglis, Mr J. C., [38]-[39], [45]
Jackson, Mr Luis, [115]-[117]
Jebb, Mr G. R., [71]
Jekyll, Sir Herbert, [62]
Kennet and Avon Canal, [26], [38]-[45], [121]
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, [46]
Lancaster Canal, [26], [124]
Languedoc Canal, [14]
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, [120], [135]
Leicester and Swinnington Railway, [29]
Lift at Anderton, [122]-[123]
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, [21], [23]-[26], [28]
Liverpool merchants, petition from, [25]-[26]
Local taxation, [9]-[10], [139], [145]-[146]
Locks, [32], [33], [43], [50], [66], [120]-[121], [127]
London and North-Western Railway Company, [37], [46], [48]-[49], [59]-[71]
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, [128]
London County Council, [5]
Loughborough Canal, [26], [27], [29]
Macclesfield Canal, [46]
Manchester and Bury Canal, [46]
Manchester Ship Canal, [133]
McAdam, J. L., [12]-[13]
Mechanical haulage, [49]-[50], [121]-[122], [130]-[131]
Meiklejohn, Professor, [97]
Mersey and Irwell Navigation, [13], [15], [21], [24]
Mersey Harbour Board, [5]
Midland Railway, [30], [37], [67], [83]
Mining operations and canals, [46], [65]-[66], [126]-[127]
Mississippi, the, [111]-[117]
Monmouthshire Canal, [26], [45]
Morrison, Mr, [27]-[28]
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway Company (Great Central), [46]
Municipalisation schemes, [4]-[8], [135]
Nationalisation of canals, [4], [10], [135]
Neath Canal, [26]
North British Railway, [53]
North-Eastern Railway, [149]
Old Union Canal, [26]
Oxford Canal, [26]
Packhorse period, the, [12], [16], [18]
Paddington Canal, [18]-[19]
Physical conditions, [11], [96]-[99], [119]
Political conditions, [100]-[102]
Principle, questions of, [9]-[11]
Private enterprise, [9], [106], [142]
Profits on canals, [15], [16], [21], [26], [27]
Public trusts, [4]-[6]
Pumping machinery, [42]-[43], [63]
Quarterly Review, [17]-[22], [111]
Railways, position of companies as ratepayers, [7]-[8];
cost of railway construction and operation, [9]-[10];
effect on railway rates, [10];
advent of, [17]-[22];
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, [21], [25], [28];
Leicester and Swinnington Railway, [29];
Midland Railway, [30];
Great Northern Railway, [31];
attitude of canal companies towards, [35]-[38];
control of canals, [38]-[56], [57]-[73];
railways in Germany, [100]-[102];
in France, [102];
recommendations, [145]-[146]
Ratepayers, liability of, [7]-[8], [137]
Rates, regulation of, on railways and canals, [27]-[28]
Regents Canal, [129]
Rennie, [124]
Road-motors, [149]
Rochdale Canal, [26], [120], [132]
Ross, Mr A., [45]-[47]
Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, [62]
Sandars, Mr Joseph, [21], [23]-[25], [34], [75]
Saner, Mr J. A., [38], [67], [129]
Sankey Brook and St Helen's Canal, [46]
Saunders, Mr H. J., [39], [44]
Select Committee on Canals (1883), [37]
Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, [46]
Shropshire Union Canal, [47]-[50], [69]-[72], [120]
Somerset Coal Canal, [40]
Speed, [122], [131]
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, [26]
Stalbridge, Lord, [86]
Stephenson, George, [30]
Stephenson, Robert, [30]
Stourbridge Extension Canal, [45]
"Strangulation" theory, [55], [143]
Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, [45]
Swansea Canal, [26], [45]
Taxpayers, how affected, [3], [5], [137]
Telford, [124]
Thames and Severn Canal, [123]
Thames steamboat service, [5]
Thomas, Mr G. C., [39]
Thwaite, Mr, [125]
Trade, changes in, [11], [40]-[42], [52]-[54], [61], [74]-[92], [133]-[134]
Traders, advice to, [146]-[147]
Trent and Mersey Navigation, [16], [26], [27], [49], [69], [72], [122], [123]
Troops, transport of, by canal, [18]-[19]
Tunnels, canal, [123]
Ulrich, Herr Franz, [97]
United States, waterways in, [104]-[118]
Vernon-Harcourt, Mr L. F., [135]
Walker, Colonel, F. N. T., [5]
Water-supply for canals, [24], [32], [33], [42]-[43], [62]-[64], [66], [77], [99], [127]-[130]
Wheeler, Mr W. H., [99]
Widenings, [66], [70], [71]
Wilts and Berks Canal, [40]
Worcester and Birmingham Canal, [26], [120], [123], [132]

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