Chapter XXVI: Appendix: (F)

CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY.

(_Estimates_ 1863-4).

_Conveyance of Mails by Railway _Amount required in England and Wales, viz._:-- for_ 1864-5.

£
By the Birkenhead Railway 2,500
" Bristol and Exeter 9,875
" Chester and Holyhead 30,200
" Cockermouth and Workington 104
" Colne Valley 15
" Cowes and Newport 23
" Cornwall 5,500
" Great Northern 9,877
" Great Western 49,829
" Great Eastern 21,367
" Knighton 120
" Lancaster and Carlisle 18,206
" Lancashire and Yorkshire 6,900
" Leominster and Kington 300
" Llanelly 40
" London, Brighton, and South Coast 1,890
" London, Chatham, and Dover 94
" London and North Western 82,416
" London and South Western 21,620
" Manchester and Altrincham 60
" Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,600
" Maryport and Carlisle 841
" Midland 35,190
" Monmouthshire 91
" London, Tilbury, and Southend 25
" North Eastern 39,177
" North Staffordshire 712
" North Union 4,878
" Oystermouth 40
" Oldham and Guide Bridge 20
" Seaham and Sunderland 70
" Shrewsbury and Hereford 2,031
" Shrewsbury, Borth, &c. 2,180
" Shropshire Union Railway 2,085
" South Devon 7,479
" South Eastern 23,635
" South Staffordshire 45
" South Yorkshire 18
" Stockton and Darlington 1,311
" Taff Vale 1,000
" Tenbury 8
" West Cornwall 1,500
" West Hartlepool 17
" Whitehaven Junction 364
" Allowance for probable variation of Awards or
Agreements 19,313
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405,566

The Irish Railway Service (the principal recipients being
the Great Southern and Western £30,982, Midland
and Great Western £15,208, Belfast and
Dublin Junction £5,917, Dublin and Drogheda,
£4,485) requires 86,833

The Scotch Railway Service (the principal items being the
Caledonian £28,497, the Scottish Central £13,068,
the Scottish North Eastern £12,000, and the
Great North of Scotland £7,584) requires 79,754
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Total for conveyance of Mails by Railway £564,102