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The Railway Regulation Act 1844 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing a minimum standard for rail passenger travel. It provided compulsory services at a price affordable to poorer people to enable them to travel to find work. It is one of the Railway Regulation Acts 1840 to 1893.〔The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2〕 ==The prior situation== Until that time there were three or more classes of carriage, third class usually an open goods wagon, often without seats, sometimes referred to sarcastically as "Stanhopes", a corruption of "Stand-ups'. During that year, a select committee had produced six reports on the railways, at the behest of the Board of Trade under its president, W.E.Gladstone. These led to ''An Act to attach certain Conditions to the construction of future Railways authorised by any Act of the present or succeeding sessions of Parliament; and for other Purposes in relation to Railways,'' referred to as "Gladstone's Act" or the "1844 Railway Regulation Act". The original bill had been far-reaching for its time - even proposing state ownership of the railways. Although nothing so revolutionary passed into law, it is remembered for provisions that: * One train with provision for carrying third-class passengers, should run on every line, every day, in each direction, stopping at every station. (These are what were originally known as "Parliamentary Trains.") : * The fare should be 1d. per mile. : * Its average speed should not be less than . : * Third-class passengers should be protected from the weather and be provided with seats. In return the railway operator was exempted from duty on third class passengers. The price was not cheap for working people. An additional requirement was that they should be allowed to carry of luggage free. It helped those in search of work thus, as Smith 〔Smith, D.N., (1988) ''The Railway and its Passengers: A Social History'' Newton Abbott: David and Charles〕 points out, its benefit was to improve labour supply. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Railway Regulation Act 1844」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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