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388. Your estimate all the way through is made on two lines?
Yes, it is; except that every five miles there is a side-place or entrance.
389. From which any carriage may turn out and come in again?
Yes.
390. Do you conceive that in 112 miles, where you will not only carry passengers but sheep and pigs, and people are to be allowed to come on from all sorts of side-places, that two lines can be enough?
I am quite sure about that.
391. What makes you sure about it?
It is possible to carry more goods and do more business on two lines of Railroad than there is any probability of coming between London and Birmingham.
Mr. Henry Robinson Palmer.—p. 156.
1. Are you a civil engineer?
I am.
2. Are you the engineer to the London Dock Company?
I am.
5. Have you carefully examined the proposed line of Railroad from London to Birmingham?
I have.
11. At what sum do you estimate the cost of the work, exclusive of contingencies?
1,893,788l.
14. Do you know at what sum the land is valued?
The land is valued at 250,000l.
15. What would that make your whole estimate?
Mr. Stephenson having estimated the whole cost at 2,500,000l.. I have supposed that that sum would be raised for the purpose of the whole work, and have therefore assumed the difference between my estimate and that sum as an item, which I distinguish as contingencies, which
