Railway Rates And Terminal Charges Vol 54 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Railway Rates and Terminal Charges, Vol. 54 The rates and charges which, under the provisions of these Acts of. 1891 and 1892, railway companies are now authorised to make in respect to the merchandise traffic, are separately dealt with under the comprehensive titles of Conveyance and of Station and Service Terminals, terms which correctly indicate the nature and extent of the enormous business the railway companies have acquired as common carriers, originally never contemplated by the legislature, as the toll collecting clauses in the earliest railway Act testify. 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.