Railway Legislation: The Railway Companies and the Railway Commissioners. Proposed Transfer to the Commissioners of the Power of Fixing Rates on Railways and Repeal of Existing Parliamentary Rates. Letters and Correspondence |
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11th section Acts of Parliament AMERICAN RAILWAYS appeal applicable Asso Associated Chambers Board of Trade Canal Company Chambers of Commerce ciated Chambers Company and Canal Debenture Stock due and reasonable enactment English Railways forwarding Company Grangers Granges holders of Railway House of Commons interested or aggrieved investors in English Joint Committee kingdom less than confiscation Member for Gloucester mutatis mutandis Newcastle-on-Tyne obedient Servant October 13 PALL MALL GAZETTE pany Parliamentary rates persons interested PHILIP COOKE proposed through rate Rail Railway and Canal Railway or Canal Railway property Railway shareholder Railways Act rates and tolls rates fixed rates now charged real effect reasonable facility Regulation of Railways requiring the traffic Resolution revise the rates revision of rates right to call right to charge route scale of rates section 11 September 12 SHAREHOLDER IN ENGLISH sub-sections ten persons interested think fit tion tribunal Wait Wait's clause Wait's motion Wait's proposal
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Page 19 - ... by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous...
Page 19 - ... or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and so that no obstruction may be offered to the public desirous of using such railways...
Page 27 - It shall not be lawful for the Commissioners in any case to compel any company to accept lower mileage rates than the mileage rates which such company may for the time being legally be charging for like traffic carried by a like mode of transit on any other line of communication between the same points, being the points of departure and arrival of the through route...
Page 19 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 26 - ... requiring the traffic to be forwarded, whether they agree to the rate and route, and if they object to either, the grounds of the objection.
Page 19 - Viet. c. 31), s. 2, it is provided that " every railway company, canal company, and railway and canal company, shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable facilities for the receiving and forwarding and delivering of traffic upon and from the several railways and canals belonging to or worked by such companies respectively...
Page 5 - Subject as herein-after mentioned, the said facilities to be so afforded are hereby declared to and shall include the due and reasonable receiving, forwarding, and delivering by every railway company and canal company, and railway and canal company, at the request of any other such company, of through traffic to and from the railway or canal of any other such company at through rates, tolls, or fares (in this Act referred to as through rates').
Page 27 - The Commissioners, in apportioning the through rate, shall take into consideration all the circumstances of the case, including any special expense incurred in respect of the construction, maintenance, or working of the route, or any part of the route, as well as any special charges which any Company may have been entitled to make
Page 19 - ... of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, nor shall any such company subject any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever...
Page 8 - Subject to the provisions in the last preceding section contained, the Commissioners shall have full power to decide that any proposed through rate is due and reasonable, notwithstanding that a less amount may be allotted to any forwarding company out of such through rate than the maximum rate such company is entitled to charge, and to allow and apportion such through rate accordingly.