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This Resolution bore fruit, for in the ensuing year (1906), in the month
of July, a Vice-Regal Commission was appointed to inquire into the
subject, and the Terms of Reference to the Commission included these
words:--
"_What causes have retarded the expansion of traffic upon the Irish
lines and their full utilization for the development of the
agricultural and industrial resources of the country; and, generally,
by what methods the economical, efficient, and harmonious working of
the Irish Railways can best be secured_."
As the newspapers said, the Irish Railway Companies were put upon their
trial. As soon as the Commission was appointed the Companies (19 in
number) assembled at the Railway Clearing House in Dublin to discuss the
situation, and decide upon a course of action. Unanimously it was
resolved to act together and to make a common defence. A Committee,
consisting of the Chairman and General Managers of the seven principal
companies, was appointed and invested with full power to act in the
interest of all, as they should find desirable. The Right Honourable Sir
William (then Sir William) Goulding, Baronet, Chairman of the Great
Southern and Western Railway, was appointed Chairman of the Committee.
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