130
6. How much is that?
246,9161. 16s.
7. Is that calculated at two-pence a mile for each passenger, as proposed to be levied by the Act?
It is so stated in Captain Moorsom's account.
8. In that statement is there any estimate of parcels conveyed by the coaches for the intermediate distances?
There is no allowance.
9. Only the parcels from Birmingham to London, and from London to Birmingham?
Only there.
10. Is there any calculation for goods and parcels that come by vans and carts?
None.
11. Are the goods that come from Liverpool and Manchester. Derbyshire and Leicestershire, and the surrounding counties, included?
There is no allowance made for them, and there is also no allowance made for the increase in the carriage of meat, fish, dairy produce, eggs, and garden produce.
12. Have you examined the evidence given by Mr. Earle, Mr. Moss, and Mr. Booth, relative to the increase of traffic on the Liverpool and Manchester line?
Yes. I have.
13. Taking this evidence as your data, what do you calculate would be the increased traffic on the proposed line of Railroad?
Mr. Booth states that the increase has been in the ratio as to passengers of 1200 to 450[1]; it may be assumed, therefore, that the number of passengers by the London and Birmingham would be doubled.
14. Then you take it in a less proportion than the actual increase?
Mr. Booth's statement is nearly in the proportion of three to one; I have taken it as two to one.
- ↑ See pp. 143, 144, q.27,29.
