Note 18 — Chapter III · The Alleged Break-down of Laissez-Faire
Reading edition
Annales télégraphiques, 1860, p. 547.
The company obtained a concession covering the whole of Belgium. In September, 1846, it opened a line between Brussels and Antwerpen. The tariff charged was low, but the line was so unprofitable that, in 1847, the company declined to build from Brussels to Quiévrain, where connection was to be made with a proposed French telegraph line.