“The contention of the applicants appears to us singularly unreasonable. It was proved before the Railway Commissioners, and is not disputed, that the actual cost to the company of the accommodation and services, which, for many years after the railway system was very largely developed, and all the principal lines in the kingdom were at work, were on some of the most important railways in England provided by independent carriers, and did not fall upon the railway company, amounted to 1s. 5d. per ton; and it is admitted that, even with the help of the six-mile clause, the company, if the contention of the applicants is correct, would, in the case of traffic carried not more than six miles, have to carry goods coming under class 5, at a dead loss, which may be approximately stated as 8d. per ton for station services alone, besides getting nothing for the use of railway and trucks and for providing power. “The charges of and incidental to ‘conveyance,’ as we have explained that phrase, are properly measured by the mile of distance travelled over. The terminal services of station accommodation, loading, watching, checking, and the like, have no common measure with the distance run, and are the same, whether that distance be two or two hundred miles.... “Our answer, therefore, is that the providing of station accommodation, and work of the general nature indicated to us by the Railway Commissioners, appear to us to be capable of falling under the definition of ‘services incidental to the duty or business of a carrier,’ and _prima facie_ to do so. Whether in any particular case they do so, or to what extent they do so, must be a question of fact for the Commissioners, the line we should draw being, that whatever is necessary for ‘conveyance’ in the sense in which we have defined it--being all capable of being measured by reference to the distance travelled--is covered by the mileage rate. Whatever is properly incidental, not to conveyance, but to the performance of the duty and business of a carrier ... that is to say, is actually performed and is done at a terminal station, may be made the subject of a separate reasonable charge. “How could the Legislature ever provide for every single station on this line, for every terminal station, what was a proper charge? It could only be done by limiting it, as it has done, by ‘a reasonable sum,’ and it is for the Railway Commissioners to say what is a reasonable sum, under the circumstances at each terminal station. ‘No station is to be considered as a terminal station in regard to any goods conveyed on the railways of the company unless such goods have been received thereat direct from the consignor of such traffic, or are directed to be delivered thereat.’ Therefore terminal stations are recognised, and terminal charges are recognised distinctly.”