How to Invest in Railways: Being a Statement of British Railway Finance and a Guide to Investors |
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How to Invest in Railways: Being A Statement of British Railway Finance and ... Walter William Wall No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 79 - An account, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 32, for the week ended on Wednesday, August 28, 1901.
Page 79 - Public deposits, including Exchequer, Savings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and dividend accounts . . Other deposits...
Page 404 - Great Central Great Eastern . Great Northern . Great Western . Lancashire and Yorkshire . London and North- Western London and South- Western . London, Brighton and South Coast .... Midland...
Page 364 - Parliament, the net revenue of the company, after paying preference charges, is to ' be applied in payment of a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum on the ordinary stock.
Page 399 - Great Central . Great Eastern Great Northern . Great Western . Lancashire and Yorkshire London and North-Western London and South- Western . London, Brighton and South Coast .... Midland .... North-Eastern . South-Eastern...
Page 330 - The report of the directors of the Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock Company...
Page 141 - Stalbridge went on to say that the system of traffic in this country was so différent from what it was anywhere else that it was impossible to economize in train-loads to the same extent as was done in America. In this country a merchant in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, York, or any other of the big towns, feels that he must receive in the morning the invoice of goods awaiting delivery that left London only the night before, whereas in France and the rest of the Continent they had never less than...