INDEX

Agriculture and canals, 16, 147-150

Aire and Calder Navigation, 86, 132, 135

Allport, Sir James, 37, 81

Aqueducts, 124

Association of Chambers of Commerce, 4, 5

Barnsley Canal, 26

Belgium, waterways in, 93-96, 97

Birmingham Canal, 26, 37, 57-73, 120, 125

Boats, size of, 32, 69, 130

Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, 26

Brecon Canal, 45

Bridgewater Canal, 13-15, 21, 23-24, 124

Bridgewater, Duke of, 13-15, 23

Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, 45

Brindley, James, 14-15, 16, 124

Brunner, Sir John T., 4

Buckley, Mr R. B., 141

Caledonian Railway Company, 50-54

Canada, waterways in, 128-129

Canals, earliest, in England, 13-22;

canal mania, 16;

passenger traffic, 18-19;

shares and dividends, 21, 26, 27;

tolls and charges, 23-25, 27-30;

handicapped, 33;

attitude towards railways, 34-38;

Kennet and Avon, 38-45;

Shropshire Union, 47-50;

Forth and Clyde, 50-54;

"strangulation" theory, 54-55;

Birmingham Canal, 57-73;

coal traffic, 84-89;

canals and waterways on the Continent, 93-103;

in the United States, 104-118;

in England, 119-141;

in Canada, 128-129;

conclusions and recommendations, 142-150

Capitalists, attitude of, 3

Carnegie, Mr, 110

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 109

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 109

Chesterfield Canal, 46, 123

Child, Messrs, 15

Coal, 13, 21, 29-30, 40, 51-53, 81-89

Consignments, sizes of, 78

Continental conditions, 11, 93-103, 139, 140, 141

Cost of reconstruction, 132-136

Cotton, raw, 89-91

Coventry Canal, 26

Cox, M.P., Mr Harold, 140

Cromford Canal, 123

Cumming, Mr T. G., 21, 147-148

Dixon, Professor F. H., 110, 117

Dredging, 43

Electrical installations, 130

Ellesmere Canal, 26, 47, 124

Engineers and canal question, 2

Erie Canal, the, 105-111, 116

Fish, Mr Stuyvesant, 114-115

Forth and Clyde Navigation, 50-54

France, waterways in, 100, 102

Frost on canals, 24, 30, 77

Gentleman's Magazine, 26

Geographical conditions, 11, 94-96, 98-100

Germany, waterways in, 94, 97, 100-102

Glass, Mr John, 129

Government guarantee, 4

Grand Junction Canal, 26, 39, 120, 123

Grand Western Canal, 45

Great Northern Railway, 31, 83

Great Western Railway Company, 38-45, 67, 68, 70

Grinling, Mr C. H., 30

Hertslet, Sir E. Cecil, 94

Holland, waterways in, 77, 94, 96

Huddersfield Narrow Canal, 120, 123

Hudson, George, 30

Inglis, Mr J. C., 38-39, 45

Jackson, Mr Luis, 115-117

Jebb, Mr G. R., 71

Jekyll, Sir Herbert, 62

Kennet and Avon Canal, 26, 38-45, 121

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, 46

Lancaster Canal, 26, 124

Languedoc Canal, 14

Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 120, 135

Leicester and Swinnington Railway, 29

Lift at Anderton, 122-123

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 21, 23-26, 28

Liverpool merchants, petition from, 25-26

Local taxation, 9-10, 139, 145-146

Locks, 32, 33, 43, 50, 66, 120-121, 127

London and North-Western Railway Company, 37, 46, 48-49, 59-71

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company, 128

London County Council, 5

Loughborough Canal, 26, 27, 29

Macclesfield Canal, 46

Manchester and Bury Canal, 46

Manchester Ship Canal, 133

McAdam, J. L., 12-13

Mechanical haulage, 49-50, 121-122, 130-131

Meiklejohn, Professor, 97

Mersey and Irwell Navigation, 13, 15, 21, 24

Mersey Harbour Board, 5

Midland Railway, 30, 37, 67, 83

Mining operations and canals, 46, 65-66, 126-127

Mississippi, the, 111-117

Monmouthshire Canal, 26, 45

Morrison, Mr, 27-28

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway Company (Great Central), 46

Municipalisation schemes, 4-8, 135

Nationalisation of canals, 4, 10, 135

Neath Canal, 26

North British Railway, 53

North-Eastern Railway, 149

Old Union Canal, 26

Oxford Canal, 26

Packhorse period, the, 12, 16, 18

Paddington Canal, 18-19

Physical conditions, 11, 96-99, 119

Political conditions, 100-102

Principle, questions of, 9-11

Private enterprise, 9, 106, 142

Profits on canals, 15, 16, 21, 26, 27

Public trusts, 4-6

Pumping machinery, 42-43, 63

Quarterly Review, 17-22, 111

Railways, position of companies as ratepayers, 7-8;

cost of railway construction and operation, 9-10;

effect on railway rates, 10;

advent of, 17-22;

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 21, 25, 28;

Leicester and Swinnington Railway, 29;

Midland Railway, 30;

Great Northern Railway, 31;

attitude of canal companies towards, 35-38;

control of canals, 38-56, 57-73;

railways in Germany, 100-102;

in France, 102;

recommendations, 145-146

Ratepayers, liability of, 7-8, 137

Rates, regulation of, on railways and canals, 27-28

Regents Canal, 129

Rennie, 124

Road-motors, 149

Rochdale Canal, 26, 120, 132

Ross, Mr A., 45-47

Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways, 62

Sandars, Mr Joseph, 21, 23-25, 34, 75

Saner, Mr J. A., 38, 67, 129

Sankey Brook and St Helen's Canal, 46

Saunders, Mr H. J., 39, 44

Select Committee on Canals (1883), 37

Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, 46

Shropshire Union Canal, 47-50, 69-72, 120

Somerset Coal Canal, 40

Speed, 122, 131

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, 26

Stalbridge, Lord, 86

Stephenson, George, 30

Stephenson, Robert, 30

Stourbridge Extension Canal, 45

"Strangulation" theory, 55, 143

Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, 45

Swansea Canal, 26, 45

Taxpayers, how affected, 3, 5, 137

Telford, 124

Thames and Severn Canal, 123

Thames steamboat service, 5

Thomas, Mr G. C., 39

Thwaite, Mr, 125

Trade, changes in, 11, 40-42, 52-54, 61, 74-92, 133-134

Traders, advice to, 146-147

Trent and Mersey Navigation, 16, 26, 27, 49, 69, 72, 122, 123

Troops, transport of, by canal, 18-19

Tunnels, canal, 123

Ulrich, Herr Franz, 97

United States, waterways in, 104-118

Vernon-Harcourt, Mr L. F., 135

Walker, Colonel, F. N. T., 5

Water-supply for canals, 24, 32, 33, 42-43, 62-64, 66, 77, 99, 127-130

Wheeler, Mr W. H., 99

Widenings, 66, 70, 71

Wilts and Berks Canal, 40

Worcester and Birmingham Canal, 26, 120, 123, 132

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