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In the course of forty miles we never had but two appeals to the sessions; every other case was adequately compromised.
10. Do you know any instance in which any landowner of the present day considers his land injured by the passage of the Railroad through it?
I am not aware of the existence of one case.
11. Do you know whether the advertisements for the letting of farms or the sales of estates contain any thing relating to the Railroad?
It is invariably stated either that the Railroad passes through the said estate or near to it; I believe invariably.
12. Those advertisements are put forward by sellers?
Yes.
13. You need hardly be asked if they consider it is an advantage?
They consider it as an enhancement of the value of the property.
14. Can you enumerate any instance in which a particular advantage is given to landholders by the line of Railroad passing through their property, or near to them?
The Stockton and Darlington Railway have paid great sums to landowners for gravel, for timber, and stone taken out of their estates, for the making of bricks and a variety of other purposes; they have paid very large sums.
16. Independent of the sums paid to the landholders for the ground taken?
Entirely independent of the sums.
17. Has there been an advantage derived to the roads in the neighbourhood from diminishing the quantity of traffic upon them?
As regards the turnpike roads. I consider they are all of them in a much better state of repair, and as to their funds, than they were prior to the construction of the Railway. I do not know of an exception.
18. Is that from the diminution of the traffic on them?
