Report Relative to Railways Between Edinburgh and Glasgow (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Having thus shown that no dependence is to be placed on the prospective estimates which are given of the expense of a railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Committee will next inquire whether any greater confidence is to be placed in the esti mates of the revenue. As, however, the Liverpool Railway has been open, and that only partially, for little more than two months, and as there is no other railway in this country similar to one between Edinburgh and Glasgow, they might be excused, though, from want of data, they should pass over this part of the subject. But though they might plead this apology, they will not avail themselves of it. They will bring forward evi dence, not in reference to some railway of a totally different description, but in regard to an Edin~ burgh and Glasgow railway itself; the witnesses, too, are of the most unexceptionable kind,-they are no other than Messrs grainger and MIL ler, and the committee of Mr Jardine's line.1' Booth's Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, p. 46. If any thing further were necessary to demonstrate the uncertainty of Messrs Grainger and Miller's project, it is the singular, yet acknowledged fact, that, though they have given an estimate of the items of expense of a railway, they have not made a particular survey of the ground over which it is to go they have, as yet, made only an eye survey of the country.

To enable us, say they, to determine the most eligible line of railway across the country, a minute survey of the country must be taken. This we have not accomplished.

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