Royal Railways with Uniform Rates / A proposal for amalgamation of Railways with the General Post Office and adoption of uniform fares and rates for any distance

by Whately C. Arnold

Other writers who have advocated the retention of our present system, and are quoted with approval by Lord Avebury, are the following:—

Messrs. G. Foxwell and T. C. Farrer (now Lord Farrer), in “Express Trains, English and Foreign.” (1889);

Mr. W. M. Acworth, in “The Railways and the Traders”;

Mr. H. R. Meyer, in “Government Regulation of Railway Rates,” and in “Railway Rates”;

and Lord Farrer and Mr. Giffin, in “The State in its Relation to Trade.”

On the other side, the following, among other advocates of railway nationalisation have shown the great advantages to be anticipated by such a measure, and have given very cogent answers to the objections of the opponents, namely:—

Mr. William Cunningham, “Railway Nationalisation.” (Published by himself at Dunfermline, 1906, 2s. 6d.);

Mr. Clement Edwards, M.P., “Railway Nationalisation.” (Methuen & Co., 1907, 2s. 6d.);

and Mr. Emil Davies in several books, including his latest, already referred to, “The Case for Railway Nationalisation.” (Collins, 1913, 1s.)