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APPENDIX II.
THE EXISTING AND PROJECTED NORWEGIAN RAILWAYS.
It sometimes happens that the pioneers of great enterprises
suffer a sort of preliminary martyrdom due to the mistakes
they inevitably make from want of special experience, and
those who follow them obtain gratuitously the fruits of
that experience which has been so costly to their
predecessors.
This is to some extent the case with our British
railways. If we were beginning all afresh now, we should
lay down a very different system from that which exists,
and adopt many other improvements which are now
rendered more or less impracticable, without the
destruction of a vast amount of existing permanent way and
rolling stock.
In Norway the case is different. They began railways—or
rather, a few English contractors began them, as a
little investment for themselves, and, with the aid of
experience, obtained here at the expense of British
shareholders, were able to construct and work the first short
line, from Christiania to Eidsvold, very economically and
profitably. Since that time other short lines, such as those
between Christiania, Dammen and Kongsberg, Christiania
and Moss, Trondhjem and Storen, &c., have been
constructed; but the Norwegians have wisely concluded, that
however desirable may be private enterprise, when directed
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