Royal Railways with Uniform Rates

Royal Railways with Uniform Rates - A proposal for amalgamation of Railways with the General Post Office and adoption of uniform fares and rates for any distance

The Royal Mail! What scenes and memories are conjured up by these words! In the olden days, the Royal Mail coachesin these modern days, the well-known scarlet Mail carts and motor vans arriving at all the larger railway stations from which the mail trains, always the fastest, convey the mails to every quarter of the United Kingdom, and over the whole world. It is now a commonplace to post in the nearest pillar-box a batch of letters, some to addresses in the same town, others to provincial towns and villages, to Scotland, Ireland and far distant Colonies, each of them being conveyed to their destination, near or far, for the modest sum of one penny, by the speediest mode of locomotion that steam and electricity can provide. In order that travellers may have the advantage of that speed and regularity which is a feature of the Royal Mail, passengers and goods have always been carried by the Mailformerly by the coach, now by the train. But whereas the mails are carried at the same price for any distance, the charges for passengers, and for goods which exceed the regulation size and weight permitted for the Parcels Post, vary according to the distance travelled, and as to goods also according to their nature or quality, with the result that for the greater part of our population long journeys are luxuries which can only be undertaken in cases of life and death, and not always then; the rates for carriage of goods by fast train are mostly prohibitive, and even by goods train for long distances are so great as to seriously restrict the traffic. [16] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53222
Author: Arnold, Whately C.
Release Date: Oct 6, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English