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The writer in the Railway Times pompously sets down as " a ma,.ter
of history" that the construction of the Great Western Line is a f.iihn..e,
and declares, ex-cathedra, that " the experience of a couple of weelts
(!) has sufficed to demolish its reputation utterly and for ever." Her
tells us, also, that this same fortnight's experience has
established, that " the Great Western Railway—though nothing
better than most other railways, and not half so good as some as cost
a great deal more to construct, and will cost a great dent more to work
than any of them." And then he most modestly concludes that an
"estimate of the capital thrown away on Mr. Brunet's abortive
whimsies at 10,0001. per miles, would certainly be quite withri limits,
but to calculate how much loss and damage must arise from then: in the
working of the undertaking would be an affair of tens of thousands,
These extracts suffice to show the animus and object of the wri,'er
clearly enough. It shall by my object briefly to contrast them with fiscts
ascertained on the best authority.
The mode of construction adopted by Mr. Brunel on the Great
Western line is to lay the rails on longitudinal bearers of Kyanized
timber, connected by transverse pieces across the whole width of the
road, the transoms themselves being firmly attached to piles driven
at certain intervals many feet deep into the ground. By these means
a sufficient resistance is obtained to the upward strain of the timbers
when ballast is driven under them, which is technically called packing.
The object of the packing is to give every part of the longitumnal
ber a firm and uniform bearing upen the earth itself, quite independent
of the support it receives from the transoms and piles. Now it must
be obvious that no care or attention will be able to render this packing
quite true and solid in the first instance. When the enormous weight
of the:locomotive comes to traverse the rail all the weak points of support,
arc discovered, and in passing over these some undulation occurs which
occasions the jolt, or uneasiness complained of. That this, however, is
greater on the Great Western Line than on other Railways, is a
mere reckless assertion. I have met with many persons, well
acquainted with Railways, who consider the Great Weston
even in its present state as much steadier, and at least as easy as any
other line, and my own experience strongly confirms this. But if some
disappointment is felt that a greater degree of smoothness has not been
attained, let it be observed that, from the very nature of the construe.
tion, the earliest trials must be the least satisfactory; that as the pack-
ing is renewed and consolidated, the timbers will gain in every part a
solid bearing; and that to judge of the plan by " the experience of a
couple of weeks," with the Solon of the Railway Times, is much on a
par with the wisdom that reckons one swallow to make a summer r
As to the cost of constructing the Great Western Railway, the writer
in the Railway Times must be aware that he knows next to nothing, or
if he have any authentic information on this point, he must be one, frot.-1
hss facility of blinking the truth, with whom honest men had better
not keep company. It is the merest guess-work on his part, though he•
writes with all the arrogance of "absolute wisdom," to estimate how much
" Mr. Brunel's abortive whimsies" have cost. Those who have the
best means of knowing the truth of the case are well satisfied that tho
cost per mile of the Great Western Railway, with all the improvements
introduced in it, will not equal that of several other most successful
lines ; and, as regards the expense of working the line, it is enough to
say that such experience as has yet been obtained is decidedly in favour
of "Mr. Brunel's whimsies," whilst any man whose judgment was not
blinded by self-interest, or " something worse," must laugh at the

attempt the anticipate the future " working of the undertaking" from
a fortnight's experience.
I may pass over this writer's affected commiseration of "the de-
plorable results" which he attributes to " the gross ignorance and pre-

sumption at the bottom of them." No one, of course, can doubt the
sincerity of his wish to " have seen this ignorance and presumption

crowned (by some good luck !) with laurels," and his own " predie-
tions utterly falsified." lam happy to say that there is some probability
of his satisfaction being complete, and that this " important and excel-
lent ramification of the railway system" will not prove " a miserable
failure." Within the first eleven days of the opening of the line (on
the 4th instant), upwards of 17,000 passengers were conveyed upon it,
and the receipts exceeded .c. 1,600/. The average number of passengers

per diem is already fully as great as that on the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway two years after its opening, and as yet a very inconsi-
derable portion of the long coach traffic has been transferred to the Rail-
way. The average time occupied in making the trip from Paddington
to Maidenhead, a distance of 23 miles, is less than an hour, including

two or three stoppages, and the average speed whilst running is from 28 to
30 miles per hour. An improvement in the state of the road is almost

daily experienced, and there can b., no doubt that when the packing
becomes consolidated, all ground of complaint will be removed. The
traffic upon the line is likely to increase greatly, and the experience of a
few months only is wanting, to convince the Shareholders that they are
in possession of one of the most valuable working lines in the kingdom-
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

June 21, Iti3B.

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