3139, Have you prepared plans and contours of a system of tube railways connecting three key positions on the existing railways with the proposed London Goods Clearing House at Clerkenwell? ---
Yes.
3140, Have you set out provisionally the proposed railway connections? ---
Yes.
3141, And have you also done the same thing with the projected Gladstone Dock, connecting it up there with the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North Western railways? ---
At Liverpool, Yes.
3142, I think you have some plans of the tubes and the London Clearing House? ---
Yes.
3143, Those are an elaboration and development of the original scheme of tubes proposed by Mr. Gattie? ---
Yes.
3144, Have they been altered from those originally contemplated by Mr. Gattie? ---
Yes. (Plan handed to Witness.)
The Chairman; I presume this large plan will be put in?
Mr. W. H. Gattie; Yes.
3145, Will you explain to the Committee how you propose to bring trains into the Clearing House from the north side, and take them out on the south side, and vice versa; and why do you propose to do so? ---
The Chairman; If the witness will mark on the plan letters, that would enable us to review it afterwards? ---
From A to B is a pair of tubes, one of which continues practically on the level, and the other, the left hand one, that is the road out of the Clearing House, goes down by a gradient of 1 in 75, so as to meet the other red line, which we will call C to B. Actually these are two lines in each case meeting here on a different level; so that here you have two tubes superposed.
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