Note 66 — Chapter VI · THE ATMOSPHERIC SYSTEM. A.D. 1840—1848. ÆTATIS 35—43.

It must be remembered that beyond the South Devon Railway was the projected railway through Cornwall, which, with its long and heavy gradients, was, in all its features, even more suitable than the South Devon for the application of the Atmospheric System. Had that system succeeded, and been introduced on the Cornwall Railway, a very great saving might have been made in the cost of the works of this line.