RAILWAY STATISTICS.
SOME statistical information respecting railways, equally curious mud im- porumt, has been published by Mr. Hall. an eminent -sharebroker at Liver- pool. It appears from Mr. Hall's statement, that the total saneunt im- pended in the construction of thirty of the oldest and mot irepottatt railways in the kingdom, as Shown by their last reports, is 56,1558Mthe. Their market-valae, on the SIst December 1844, was 67,839,1061. The excess of value over the cost of construction has been added to the tuttional capital—property to that amount has been created ; and that property is the menage& diminishing the expenses and increasing the comfort of the whole community. It is an unexceptionable warrant of the substantial character of railway property, that only two railways have fallen in value in the course of last year, while six have risen more than My per cat. One of these (the Newcastle and Darlington) has risen 490)000/..; the cost of construction having been under 450;000i. The Great Western 161)WS the enormous rise in value of 2,145,0001. within the year.
Previous page
