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- Author: Samuel Smiles
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 332
- ISBN-10: 1544644736
- ISBN-13: 9781544644738
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The results of the working of railways have been in many respects different from those anticipated by their projectors. One of the most unexpected has been the growth of an immense passenger-traffic. The Stockton and Darlington line was projected as a coal line only, and the Liverpool and Manchester as a merchandise line. Passengers were not taken into account as a source of revenue, for at the time of their projection, it was not believed that people would trust themselves to be drawn upon a railway by an "explosive machine," as the locomotive was described to be. Indeed, a writer of eminence declared that he would as soon think of being fired off on a ricochet rocket, as travel on a railway at twice the speed of the old stagecoaches.
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- Author: Samuel Smiles
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 332
- ISBN-10: 1544644736
- ISBN-13: 9781544644738
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The results of the working of railways have been in many respects different from those anticipated by their projectors. One of the most unexpected has been the growth of an immense passenger-traffic. The Stockton and Darlington line was projected as a coal line only, and the Liverpool and Manchester as a merchandise line. Passengers were not taken into account as a source of revenue, for at the time of their projection, it was not believed that people would trust themselves to be drawn upon a railway by an "explosive machine," as the locomotive was described to be. Indeed, a writer of eminence declared that he would as soon think of being fired off on a ricochet rocket, as travel on a railway at twice the speed of the old stagecoaches.
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