The English Press On The Proposed Construction Of Railways In India PDF Download

Excerpt from The Proposed England and India Railway: A Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, First Lord of the Treasury The political importance and commercial advantages of bringing India into still closer proximity with this country, than even has been done by the Opening of that great work the Suez Canal - must be better known to you than ourselves. Our object as engineers, is to lay before you as brie y and as clearly as we can, the project of a line of railway which we consider should be made, and which England should take an active part in seeing executed, because it would bring India practically within five days' journey of the commercial centres of this country. In entering upon the subject of a direct, continuous, and unbroken line of railway, between England and India, we do not pretend to assert that the idea' of direct railway communi cation between this country and India is new, for such a scheme has been mooted several times, and portions of the line we are about to lay before you as a whole, have had several projectors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."