Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System
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Excerpt from Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System: A History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and a Record of Its Results Fifty years ago there were only twenty-five miles of public railroad open in the world - the Stockton and Darlington line - constructed at a cost of less than £150,000. It is estimated that there are now constructed one hundred and sixty thousand miles of railway, which, at an average cost of £20,000 per mile, represent a total sum of 3200 millions sterling. Then there were only two locomotive engines available for use on a public railway. Now there are 50,000 locomotives in use, representing a total power equal to that of ten million horses. Fifty years ago the railway interest employed less than three hundred hands. Now it employs more than three hundred thousand in Great Britain alone. In the year 1844 - when we get fairly into the railway era - the gross annual value of the lands, railways, canals, &c., of Great Britain was only £95,300,248. In 1873, and mainly in consequence of the development of railways, it had increased to £212,922,851. Incomes from trades and professions have advanced during the same period with equally remarkable strides - their gross annual value being £65,095,191 in 1844, and £197,237,339 in 1973. From these figures, which can only be taken as approximate, we may form some adequate idea of what railways have done for the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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