The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-10-31
LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY

The Mechanics Magazine gives copy
of the statement of the balance sheet of the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway flom
LIST July 10 Dist Dec, 1881, showing that the
undertaking is going on with increasing
prosperity. To this statement it adds the
following abstract frsm the evidence on the
advantages of rail roads - Before the es
Establishment of the Liverpool and Man
chester Raii way, there were ~ regu
lar, and about Z occasional extra coaches
between those places, which if full, could
carry only 6SS persons per day. The
Railway from its commencement car
ned 100000 persons in l8 months, being
an average of 1910 pei day. 1t has not
been stopped for single day There has
occurred hut one fatal accident on il in Is
months. The fare by coach was los. in
side, and IS. outside. By rail way it IS
S. outside, and 3s. Cd. outside. The time
was hours. By railway it is IL hours.
Al the coaches hut one have ceased run
ming. and that for conveyance of parcels.
The mails all travel by the railway, at a
saving TO government Of two thirds OF the
expense. The railway coarhes are more
commodious than others. The travelling is
Gheaper, safer and easier. great deal OF
traffic, which used TO go hy other roads,
comes now 10y railway; both tune and mon
ey are saved, though the length of the jour
ney may he often increased. The proper
ton of paSsens ers carried by railway over
tqose carried by coach, has been as % TO 10
in winter, and IL or 10 to 10 in summer. A
regiment of soldiers has been carried by the
railway from Manchester to Liverpool IN
two hours. Gentlemen's carriages are con-
veyed on trucks by the rnil- way. The To-
comotives travel in safety after dark. The
rate of carriage of goods is los per ton-ly
canal it used 10 he 15s per ton. The time
occupied in the journey Ivy railway is two
hours--hy canal 1t is twenty hous The
canals have reduced their rates 30 per cent.
Goods are delivered in Manchester the same
day they are received ut Lverpool-hy Ca
nal they were never delivered before the
third day. By railway, goods, such as
wine and spirits, are not subject 10 the pI-
ferage which existed on the canals. The
saving To manufacturers in the neighbour
hood Of Manchester, in the carriage of cot
q ton alone, has been 100000 per annum.
Some houses of business save 9500a year III
carriage. Persons now 90 from Manrhes-
ter to Liverpool and back in the same day
with great ease. Formerly they were gen-
orally obliged to be absent the greater pant
of two days. More persons now travel on
their own business.
The railway is assessed to the parochlal
rates in all the parishes through which it
passes; though only 81 miles, it pays be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 per annum IN par
ochical rates. Coal. pits have been sunk,
and manufactures established on the line,
giving great employment 10 the poor. man
ufactories also erected on the line, giving
increased employment, aud thus redurlng
the number of claimants for parochlal relief.
The railway pays one-fith of the poor
rates in the parishes through which II pass
cs; fresh coal-Inines sunk, owing to The ia
cilities of carriage, md prices reduced. II
is found advantageous for the carriage OF
milk and garden produce; arrangements
are about to he made for milk to he carried
Is miles at Is for ten gallons, Il. e., less
than one faltning per quari.) MIR. Babbage
observes, IN his hook on the Economy oI
Manufactures, "One point Of view, IN
which rapid modes of conveyance increase
the power of country, deserves attention
On the Manchester railroad, for example
above half million of persons travel annu
nliy anu surprising eh'h peIson W save on
~ one hour IN the time of transit between
Manchester and Liverpool, n saving Of five
hundred thousand hours, or fifty ,housanl
working days, Of ten hours each. is effected
Now this is equivalent to an addition 10 ih'
actual power Of the country Of one hundred
and siX,y-scven men, wilbon, increasing III,
quantity Of food consumed. and it shoul,
also he remurked that the time of the elias
of men thus supplied, is far more valuable
ihan that Of mere laborers"