The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76
[introduction]
At the present moment there are two systems of Railway Administration actively at work in the world, and there are four under discussion.
Of the two actively at work, the English System was the universal system up to the 1st of August, 1889, when the Hungarian Zone System came into force in that country, just five years and seven months after I had placed the Stage System before the New Zealand public.