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be abundantly sufficient to remunerate the outlay of the additional
1,215,0001., making 8,000,0001., which would, even in the Board's
opinion, suffice to construct the integral line projected by the London
and York Company, ten miles shorter in its trunk, and more com-
prehensive in its local accommodation. By the schemes approved,
or rather suggested, by the Board of Trade, the traffic of the
district would be collected upon 334 + 50 = 384 miles of railway,
and the same traffic would be concentrated by the London and
York Railway upon 327 miles. The Committee are prepared to
show that the local traffic between Newark.and Chesterfield, and
between Snaith and Wakefield, on the lines by the Board's Report
substituted for those lines from Bawtry to Sheffield, and from Don-
caster to Wakefield, would not add materially to the amount. The
Board's comparison of the London and York estimates of traffic with
the income of the Eastern Counties and Midlands, must be neces-
lazily inconclusive ; since the Eastern Counties is not sufficiently ad-
vanced to enjoy the benefits of a through line, or even what may be
termed an extended line ; and the Midland average of 411. per mile
per week is made up for the year ending June, 1843, (and not 1844, as
stated in the Report) of the aggregate of three lines—the North
Midland, 72 miles bringing 541. ; the Midland Counties, 57 miles,
bringing 421. ; and the ilrmingharn and Derby. 48 miles, bringing
231. pey mile—the last line being a competing line with the second.
The entire Midland returns for the half year ending December, 1844,
are equal to 591. per mile per week for the year, and this includes only 41.
per mile for carriage of minerals, whereas, if, as the projector a of the
London and York assert, and the Board of Trade are pleased to ad-
roit, the district of the London and York and Eastern Counties will
be supplied with coal by those lines, the mineral traffic alone must
necessarily be equal to 201. per mile per week.

The Committee are not enly fully prepared to prove the ample
traffic on their line—and that -their estimated income of 1,000,0001.
is not, as alleged in the Report of the Board of Trade, exaggerated
—but so far from their income being dependent open the difference
between three halfpence and twopence-farthing placed on part
of their passenger income, or u, on their security from compe ition,
they are in a condition to show that even one-half of their whole
estimated passenger traffic, and Gl. instead of 20/. per mile per week
for mineral traffic, would give an income of 51. per cent. upon a
capital of eight millions, after deducting 401. per cent. for working
axpense..

In allusion to the accommodation of the great county of Lincoln,
the Report farther states, that, •" by a double line or loop,' the London
and York scheme requires the making of 150 miles, partly of difficult
construction, to provide for the same traffic which would be accom-
modated in some respects better, and in others almost equally as well,
by about 10:1 miles, all of very easy construction." So far from this
being correct, the public will be surprised to find :the reverse is the
fact, for whilst that part of the London and York scheme which lies
within the county of Lincoln, comprises only 111% miles, the lines
Proposed by the Board of Trade within the same county extend to
121 miles ! the measurement being taken in both instances from the
south border of Lincolnshire to Newark, and to Oainsborongh on the
north. The accommodation afforded by the London and York lines
being preferred by the inhabitants.
The Report of the Board of Trade contains various other errors and
inconsistencies too numerous to be treated of here, but which the
London and York Committee will take care shall be fldly set forth
when the merits of the case of the London and York shall be under
the consideration of the Parliamentary Committee on the te•
assembling of the House of Commons.
In conclusion, the Committee beg leave to reiterate, that where
(as in the case of the London and York) the district through which
a new railway Is projected, is urgent and unanimous in
its favour, and the requisite capital is subscribed, they cannot be-
lieve that Parliament will refuse its sanction, out of regard to the in-
terests of existing railways, which make the main trunk longer, and
the local accommodation neither so comprehensive nor satisfactory to
the inhabitants.
The feeling of Parliament and of the country, with reference to
the London and York Line, when coupled with the acknowledgment
of its merits by the Board of Trade, and the manifest misconception
under which the economical conclusions of that Board have been
drawn, give every confidence to the Committee of the ultimate sue-
eess of the scheme—and the Committee are persuaded Parliament
wlll recognise the public importance of an integral line under one
Management, and its vast superiority over a series of lines, which in-
terpose obstacles to the traveller at every change.

LINES APPROVED OR SUGGESTED BY THE BOARD OF

TRADE.

I. Ca%bridge and Lincoln ••••• • • • • .
2. tarringdon-street Extension • .
a• lreet Northern •• • •
4.. Boston Branch.• • . • • • • • • • • • • •
11 •••• • • • • • 1
. Stamford and Spalding ditto, sug-
gested by the Board of Trade ... •
S. Eastern Counties Biggleswade, in
lieu of Loudon and York to Big-
gleswade .. . • • • ....• • • • • • • ***** • •
7. Bedford, London and Birmingham
in lieu of London and York Bed-
ford Branch.— • • • • • • • —•—
a. Swinton to Gainsborough, in lieu of
~ London and York line to Doncaster
S.
. Wakefield and Goole (part of) in
lieu of 21 miles the Wakefield
. Branch of London and York... •• •
LG. Rewark and Chesterfield, with
11. To Sleaford and Grantham, sug-
gested by the Board of Trade in
len of London and York Line,
through Grantham, Newark, Bet-
ford and Bavrtry, to Sheffield* ....

Z. £
1,250,000 15,0
800,000

1,300,000122,1

240,0001 8,1

450,000118,1

125,0001 8,1

430,000113,1

11 220,000112,

500,000 15,1

420,0001 IS,I

Total

334 37

1.5,785,0001

The Districts undermentioned, accompanied by the London and
York scheme, are left wholly unprovided for by the schemes of the
Board of Trade.
Loudon to
Iliggleswade to Ilufiting ..... 18 ~
don . 22 Miles.
......... • .. •
Stamford to Grantham • •
Newark to Bawtry..... ..... ..•..• 18........., ~. 25 ..

83 Miles.

- I Ile Report gives no estimate of these Branches, but 15,0001. a
rude Is assumed, being the same cost as the Main Line.
C J. R. MOWATT, Sec.
e",.' 7' /4thbur7, Loudon, 25t1i March, 1845.