The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68
London and North-Western Line
London and North-Western Line.
Fifty-five miles: Maximum legal rate for minerals, 5s 5½d per ton; rate charged 11s 8d, or 6s 2½d in excess.
Fifty-five miles:-—Manchester goods, &c.: legal rate, 10s 10d; rate charged, 22s 6d; excess charge, 11s 8d per ton.
Fourteen miles:—Boots and shoes, &c.: Legal rate, 24s 3d; rate charged, 55s; excess charge, 30s 9d, for transporting a ton only 14 miles.