“Mr. James Grierson has laid the railway world under a deep obligation by the publication of ‘Railway Rates, English and Foreign.’ ... The facts and arguments, presented in clear, firm, incisive language, cannot fail to impress, instruct, and interest whoever this vast question in any way affects.”—Railway Official Gazette, January, 1887.
Footnotes
[ [1] Mr. Forwood. Debate on second reading of Railway and Canal Traffic Bill, 6th May, 1886. Hansard, vol. cccv. 446.
[ [2] See Report of Royal Commission, 1867; Report of Joint Select Committee of House of Lords and Commons, 1872; Report of Select Committee, 1881-2.
[ [3] Gustav Cohn, the well known German writer on English railways, while advocating many changes, complains of the limited, one-sided knowledge of the subject shown by the chief English critics of railways.—Die Englische Eisenbahnpolitik (1883), p.88 and elsewhere.
[ [4] Note.—See illustration of cubical contents in proportion to weight, page 83.
[ [5] For attempts to calculate cost of service, see A. Fink on “Cost of Railway Transportation,” New York (1882); Hadley on “Railway Transportation,” p. 261; Sax’s Die Eisenbahnen 1.60 and 2.361; Lardner’s Railway Economy; and the Italian Parliamentary Inquiry (Atti della Commissione d’Inchiesta sull’ Esercizio delle Ferrovie Italiane) part II., vol. II., 962.
[ [6] See the unqualified condemnation of the system in the Italian Parliamentary Report already quoted: “The natural system was a system eminently theoretical. To-day all doubt on the subject is removed; this system was tried for five years, and it proved very unsatisfactory.” Parte II., Vol. III., p. 954. It is pointed out with truth that the so-called “natural system” is injurious to small industries and small towns.
See also page 18.