Identifier: annualreportofbo1888mass (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter, State Printers
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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1889.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 14. 163 (B.) PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS TO THEPUBLIC IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. POLICY OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING RAILWAYS. In dealing with questiQns of the safety of the travelling public,Parliament has proceeded upon the principle of not attempting todirect the active operations of railway companies, or to give to thegovernment, either directly or indirectly, any control over the safe orefficient working of the railways. Railway companies are free to construct and work their lines inany manner they choose, provided only that the construction is such,at the opening, as, in the opinion of an inspecting officer of theboard of trade, will enable the then anticipated traffic to be workedwithout danger to the public. When the line has been opened for traffic, government only pos-sesses a power of making regulations a#^ junctions between lines oftwo companies, and when the lines intei-fere with landowners inter-ests, as, for instance, where the grade of

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