Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and ManchesterDrake, James, active 1825
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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester
Drake, James, active 1825
Grand Junction Railway Company (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks; Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
Every person calling a coach, and not employing it to such call, shall
pay such sum as would have been due for carrying a fare from the stand to
the place where the driver was called to.
Carriages drawn by one horse to carry not exceeding four persons besides
the driver; and in carriages drawn by two horses, for every person above
four in addition to the driver, one fourth of the whole fare.
The above fares shall be deemed a sufficient compensation for any
reasonable luggage which the passengers may think fit to take.
When the fares for any carriage with two horses shall amount to four
shillings or upwards, or any carriage with one horse, three shillings or
upwards, it shall be at the option of the hirer to detain such carriage,
to return in the same, on payment of half fare, provided it be not
detained more than twenty minutes, and for which detention no additional
sum shall be demanded.
NIGHT FARES.—After 12 o’clock at night, or before 6 o’clock in the
morning, double the above fares are to be allowed; but when double fare
for distance is charged, single fare for waiting only to be allowed; or
if double fare for waiting is charged, only single fare for distance.
[_Time of standing_, _from nine_, _morning_, _to twelve_, _night_.]
_Piccadilly Stand_.—3 pair-horse, 20 one-horse coaches.
_St. Ann’s Square_.—2 pair-horse, 15 one-horse coaches.
_Railway Station and St. Peter’s Square_.—2 pair-horse, and 7 one-horse
coaches, may stand at either of these places: they usually ply in
Liverpool Road, at the arrivals of the railway trains, and at other times
stand in St. Peter’s Square.
_Hunt’s Bank_, _by the Church Steps_.—2 one-horse coaches.
_Tame-street_, _opposite the Crescent_, _Ancoats_.—1 one-horse coach.
SALFORD.
_Front of New Bailey_.—Twelve coaches.
CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK.
_All Saints’ Church_.—Seven coaches.
_Upper Brook-street_.—Four coaches.
_Tuer-street_, _Oxford-street_.—Two coaches.
BANKERS.
_Manchester Bankers_. _Correspondents in London_.
Bank of England Branch Bank. Bank of England.
Savings’ Bank, Mr. Jn. Atkinson, Agent,
1, Cross-street.
Cunliffes, Brooks, & Co., R. Cunliffe, jun., & Co.
Market-street.
Daintry, Ryle, & Co., Norfolk-street. Whitmore, Wells, & Co.
B. Heywood & Co., St. Anne-street. Masterman & Co.
W. Jones, Lloyd, & Co., King-street. Jones, Lloyd, & Co.
Scholes, Tetlow, & Co., Cannon-street. Curries & Co.
Bank of Manchester, Market-street. Denison & Co.
Manchester & Liverpool District Bank, Smith, Payne, & Co.
Spring Gardens.
Northern and Central Bank, Westminster Bank.
Crown-street.
Union Bank, Crown-street. Glyn & Co.
Commercial Bank of England, Masterman & Co.
Mosley-street.
Manchester & Salford Bank, King-st. Williams, Deacon & Co.
South Lancashire Bank, Crown-street. Barclay & Co.
NEWSPAPERS.
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