New System of levying Fares and Freights.

Passenger Fares.

I propose to abolish the mileage system altogether, and to substitute instead a series of ticket stations. The first four, starting page 10 from any capital town, to be placed as nearly as possible at distances of seven miles apart, and then at intervals of fifty miles all along the lines. When any inland town on the line has a population of, say 2,000, I would place a ticket station seven miles from it on either side, and when the population reached 4,000, another station on each side, and when 6,000, treat it as a capital town.^* I propose to charge uniform fares from ticket station to ticket station, or for any intermediate distance of 6d. for first and 4d. for second-class passengers.