dc.contributor.author | Eason, Charles | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-04-27T17:43:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-04-27T17:43:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1883 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Eason, Charles. 'Railway rates'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. VIII, Part LXI, 1882/1883, pp413-430 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 00814776 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL N73 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL R41 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL L91 | |
dc.identifier.other | JEL L92 | |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/8453 | |
dc.description | Read before the Society, 30 January 1883 | en |
dc.description.abstract | A great deal of discontent is felt by traders, and by the general public, with the charges made by railway companies for the carriage of goods and passengers. It is alleged: That trade is injured by excessive rates, which prevent its development; that railway charges are higher than formerly; at least relatively since many rates were increased about 1872-3, when prices of wages and materials (especially coal) were high, but have not again fallen with the prices of these materials; that particular towns are favoured by certain companies, and that rates are in general unequal and fixed on no uniform principle
whereby traffic is diverted from its natural channels; that the rates charged are frequently in excess of what may be legally charged by the companies under their acts of parliament; that it is difficult or even impossible to ascertain what, in a particular case, a company is entitled to charge, or will charge; that traders have no effectual means of resisting the excessive or illegal charges of the companies; that canals have been rendered almost powerless to compete with railways, by the fact that the companies have got possession of many important links in the system of navigation; that railways are carrying some traffic at a loss, and are levying excessive charges upon other descriptions of traffic to maintain their dividends. | en |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Vol. VIII, Part LXI, 1882/1883 | en |
dc.relation.haspart | Vol. [No.], [Year] | en |
dc.source.uri | http://www.ssisi.ie | |
dc.subject | Transport | en |
dc.subject | Irish railways | en |
dc.subject | Railway rates | en |
dc.subject | Freight charges | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 314.15 | |
dc.title | Railway rates | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | |