Excerpt from An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Mersey and Irwell Navigation (commonly styled the Old Quay) Company, and the Trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal. The ats or barges, in both cases, have to navigate the River Mersey from Liver pool to Runcorn, a distance of about twenty miles, according to the ordinary track which vessels are able to pursue, and thence by separate routes, the Duke of Bridgewater's navigation by canal terminating in Castle-field, Manchester, and that of the Old Quay ...
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Excerpt from An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Mersey and Irwell Navigation (commonly styled the Old Quay) Company, and the Trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal. The ats or barges, in both cases, have to navigate the River Mersey from Liver pool to Runcorn, a distance of about twenty miles, according to the ordinary track which vessels are able to pursue, and thence by separate routes, the Duke of Bridgewater's navigation by canal terminating in Castle-field, Manchester, and that of the Old Quay Company consisting alternately of canals and the Rivers Mersey and Irwell, till it reaches the same great depot; the whole distance being about fifty miles. The Old Quay Company obtained their first Act of Parliament in 1733, and the Duke of Bridgewater in 1760. We shall take it for granted that, at this latter period, the trade of Liverpool had so far increased as to render expedient the establishment of a Second means of conveyance, namely, the Bridgewater Canal. We have now, therefore, to ascertain whether, since the period of 1760, there has been such an increase in the trade and commerce of this district, as to render it probable that even a t/z'ird line of communication might be desirable and beneficial to the public; and a few leading facts in the comparison will be abundantly sufficient to determine this point. In 1760, the number of vessels which paid dock duties at Liverpool was 2560. In 1824, when the Railway Company was formed, it was the tonnage of the port having more than doubled in the ten preceding years, namely, since 1814. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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