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Stationary engines.

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The length of the main line from Carno Mill to Cardiff was to be 26 miles, the branches increasing the total to 44 miles. The estimates of expenditure put the cost of land and construction at £31,105, exclusive of £894 10s., for "obtaining the Act, etc." The items in respect to the main line were as follows:—

£00s.00d.
Forming the road and laying the dram rails,
making the fences, etc., £220 per mile
5720000000
Iron dram rails, 44 tons per mile, at £6 per ton6864000000
Sleepers, £40 per mile1040000000
Purchase of land, 26 miles at £75 per mile1950000000
Extra allowance, £100 per mile2600000000
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£18,174000000

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In regard to this particular plea, see further references to the Glamorganshire Canal Company on pages [238]-9.

[36]

Amalgamated by the Midland Railway Company.

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