text:  What possible benefit can accrue to a town or neighbourhood near which the railway passes but where there is no station? Can it encourage the trade of such a town as Dangley or Standon to know that the five or six thousand beings who are whirled past them with almost invisible rapidity every day arrive in Liverpool in ten hours after leaving London? On the contrary is it not found to be directly injurious to them by the encouragement it gives to towns and villages more favourably situated; while their inns become deserted their tradespeople are drifted out of the great stream of business their turn-pikes are ruined and grass grows in their streets