The Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, 1854 to 1888; Being the Railway and Canal Traffic ACT, 1854, the Regulation of Railways ACT, 1873, the Board of Trade Arbitrations ACT, 1874, the Cheap Trains ACT, 1883, and the Railway and Canal Traffic ACT, 1888, with (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... have been an end of the case at once. What did it matter whether it was the storage of coal in a place near the station or fifty miles off on some superflueus land which the company might somewhere or other have got, and which they wore lotting for the purpose of storage. The principle is one and the same." East and West India Dock Co. v. Shaw & Co., 39 Ch. D. 524, 532. In Locke v. N. K. Ry. Co., 3 N. & Mac. 44; 4 Rep. Ry. Com. 28, it appeared that the railway company were in the habit of letting cells or depots at their stations to colliery owners for their separate use, in which they were allowed to store their own coal, at a yearly rental, said to be calculated at 3d. a ton on the average sale of coal out of tho allotted cells. The company weighed the coal sold out 27. of the cells for the colliery owners, made no charge for unloading, .' and allowed them a rebate of 2J per cent, for carriage on coal sold charge for through the cells, while they refused to weigh the coal of other carriage, and colliery owners except as it stood in the truck, and charged a sum I6TM?"11 of 3d. per ton for unloading. The Commissioners decided that the mg. company were entitled to refuse to weigh the coal, but that the rebate of 2J per cent., and the exemption from the charge of 3d. per ton for unloading, constituted an undue preference in favour of the colliery owners possessing cells, and granted an injunction against its continuance. Station expenses are frequently included in a mileago rate, which Allowance out covers all services rendered by the company; and even where a f muea&e company have power to make a charge for terminals, they ma)' station elect not to do so, and, without exceeding their maximum rato, services, charge a mere mileage ...