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Kingdom containing as many as four or five hundred
inhabitants might he placed in railway
communication with the present main lines; and every
one of these little common-sense railways might
be profitably worked. Many would be sufficiently
served with a rolling stock of a dozen carriages
and two locomotives, one in work and one in
reserve, for use when the other needed repair.
A dozen men might work the whole concern,
and the same train run backwards and forwards,
shuttle fashion, all day, excepting at the driver’s
meal times, and thus render collisions impossible
by never having more than one train on the line.
I do not suppose for a moment that existing
railway boards are capable of carrying out such
a scheme. The directors of these are far too
magnificent, their ideas of permanent way, of
plant, of speed, of general management and
expenditure, of patronage, parliamentary and other
influence, &c., &c., are vastly too gigantic for
what I propose. My common-sense lines must be
constructed and worked by independent
companies, or, better still, by individual and independent
capitalists for each little line, and have no other
connection with the great monopolies than
permission to feed them by means of humble termini,
so connected with the stations of the big lines,
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