 | Almanacs, English - 1911 - 704 pages
...authorities may apply to the Development Com misTHE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION. The tobtl mileage of canals and navigations at present used in the United Kingdom is about 4670 miles. Of this total extent about 3639 miles lie in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and 848... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1912 - 714 pages
...longer improvements are postponed the more costly they will be.** (See also London Locomotion, p. 135.) The total mileage of canals and navigations at present used in the United Kingdom is about 4,670 mites. Of this total extent about 3,639 miles lie in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and Sjtd in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 716 pages
...longer improvements are postponed the more costly they will be." (See also London Locomotion, p. 135.) The total mileage of canals and navigations at present used in the United Kingdom is about 4.670 miles. Of this total extent about 3,639 miles lie in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1914 - 708 pages
...as compared with ao'ig per cent, in the previous year. See also ENGINEERING. OUR INLAND WATERWAYS. The total mileage of canals and navigations at present...Kingdom is about 4,670 miles. Of this total extent about 31639 miles lie in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and 848 in Ireland. About 3,310 miles are not... | |
 | Edward Carnegie Cleveland-Stevens - Railroads - 1915 - 410 pages
...and working of the canals and inland navigations in the United Kingdom. The Commission stated that " the total mileage of canals and navigations at present...4,670 miles. Of this total extent, about 3,639 miles are in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and 848 in Ireland. The whole of the 1 "Progress of the... | |
 | Geography - 1910 - 934 pages
...century and the present time, while the transport business of the country has multiplied several times. The total mileage of canals and navigations at present used in the United Kingdom is given as about 4670 miles — 3639 in England and Wales, 183 in Scotland, and 848 in Ireland ; 3310... | |
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About ;,*»" miles are not railway-owned or controlled ; 1,360 miles, or nearly a third of the whole extent, are so owned or controlled. The net revenue from these waterways in... 