The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

RA A WA I'B.

GIIAT NOITHRILN.—The works between Orantham tad
Carley will not DO eomwnced till the spring. This will
came some bundr4 navigators to be thrown out of employ.
WINDSOR ETTA/MON OT TEE BOOTH WIROTTILN —Tale
company's extension I.ne into Windsor is nearly finished, and
will be opened for defile in a fortnight. The houses and
builds', in Datchnt-lane, which were allowed by the direc-
ted TO Toonsin as • hospital for the use of the 'holed
patients, are to be sold this week, to mane way for the coin-
Amiss of the line.
BAST LANCAOND&N, BOLTON, AND WU, YOILLOWIII.
—An agreement kw been entered into that will pat an end
to the oimpeution that has hitherto existed between these
onapanise. The stipulations are that the whole of the traffic
to and fret Liverp ad, Missolinter, and Blackburn shail be
divided in certain proportions between the different com-
panies, with • per centime on the gross receipts foe working
the train, the whole of which will be oonosstratvd at the
central station of the Bast Lancashire, who are to work the
local traffic of both the ILlton, Blackburn, and Clitheroo,
and also of the West Yorkshire lisilways.
laILWAT ECONONT.—WA yesterday inspected a new
of permanent way laid down upon a portion of
steam of
near the London-bridge terminus,
MA nit* if permanently sumideful—and there appears no
NNW le &Debt that it will be—must result in an enormous
eetheltion of the working expenses of the railways of this
nieny. The point of revenue expenditure to which the
attention of railway 'managers has, for some time past, been
obietly directed is that for the renewal of the per-
manent way. We bad den, in the carefully &awf-
ul, and very able report of Captain Haish, the general
manager of the London and North. Western Rail-
way, that, notwith‘tandirg considerable portion of
the line have the sleepers-screwed by the contractor., a sum
of 20,0001. per annum is considered to be requires' as a re-
serve, to be pawed at compound interest, for the restoration'
of the rails sad sleepers; and, if our memory does not fail'
us, Mr. Laing, the ehairmaa of the London and Brighten
Company, has estimated the cost of renewing the wean
thopers alone AL 781. per mile per annum. The OM M
MR of permanent way referred to—the invention of Mr.
Bean, the engineer-in-chief of the South Eiders Com-
pany—will, if found to be as applicable as • four month's
trial with very heavy traffic carried on with heavy
'nigh" dew to show it really is for railway traffic,
love Ilvosixthe of the expense now incurred for
the restoration of the wooden sleeper system, with
in wooden key adjunct ; sad greater security to life and limb
will be obtained. By mho new system of permanent way, the
crow • ooden sleeper and wooden key are entirely dispensed
with for what is stated to be a far lide perishable meditat—
ed., east-iron. The joint deer re, which have three chairs
cast upon them, are 6 feet long by 16 inches wide, and three.'
quarters of an Mob deep ; and the latensediste sleep, n an
3 feet 4 inches long, and are of the ruse width
and depth as the Nat sleeper". The sleepers are
'divided longtitudinally into halves. and are screwed toge-
ther, to as to clasp the rails vies fashion. By this means
the line becomes a ecnisinwous bar of iron, but the
motion of the en&e end train over it is less irregular end
less implement than upon the ordinary mom sleeper road.
The total weight dykes' east-iron eked and steepen, re-
quired for a double mile of railway, is 280 tons, which, at
fl 6s. per ton, for which it is stated the materials ens be
Purchased, world give 1,2001. per mile. The wooden sleeper
Is estimated to lad from 8 to 16 rare, and when decayed it
is utterly valueless. Tice inn sleeper will, it is said, last 40
years, and when me longer serviceable' it can be redeet at
a comparatively small expense. It is not ales* in the
dated less perishable inure of the eadiron new Net
• wit( will be offend. The uses of relaying the,od bog to
' be incurred nay time the wooden sleeper nee" M>yt tilt
expense mast be added to the greater net
the pidabable Ratan of such deeper. Thing
the sienna and then under the now system of
way ie ostinethed Wit
parade Barlow, with geese to
be not OM Oen BBL ade per anus ea eider. /IL per
mile per aluram, Or nodes demrs, *Ann of the one
keys. The esstaben their shahs lie on the
surface el the real, ant=gasessdnes as be deleeledromat
a glance. In the nein thaw erten it is net
to detest the neeonatoie of the menial without
le
the meth, in whin they an vet" generally embedded, wrg
have no doubt that seem. to einem of ins deepen es
that now laid down by Mr. Barlow maid Meg eine hen
'INNS istrodseed, bat for the comparative high pries at whisk
iron Iles stood fee year. past. Dirseteea wen en the see
hand. undling te ism the greater ;original Oa►
lay mitred the ben thin for wood, end as dm
other hand, the qssetisa of the Marabou nit of ro-
wing the pennant way ban but reeentlit premed itself
upon the attest eh of *hay direeton. The general
de-
ernse of dietitian bee fined the question of working en.
penes spin 11•1 stiemlies of railway managers ; and we
Inv take the sew enema of priummeat way as the r suit ell
t.esperionne of Mt entwondy reseed man, who hex
bis attentioa Si a essitheralisa th msoum
ebb* the waging exposes of railways may he
Wm Mend of the wenn sienna is now Mean to be
• an of wry melons moment to railway NSW
Paillift slid if lice 11441 system should amen% sin
we believe it will, its general adoption would sine men
half million sterling in the waking expenses of *the
railways of this osemny. We pensive that the Muth
Bootees Company have adverted for tendon be these
east irem sleepers sad chairs for about two miles.—lthithey
Journal.
Kuntoz-Elainsono Rathwam.—The Bavarian soma.
meat hos greeted the necessary poison to a eemigny
fee enabling it te connect Musick end Beleitorg by a r
way; tie Austrian /overawes% will nude:take the prolonAa.
den of it to Liss. This new lino will per through Roses-
beim, and debauch by means of • bench line to
Kande. Bavaria, in addition to the now sompided grand
south and sow* lime fess Rot to Haufbeures, and the one
from Munich to An is preparing also in X
• wenn hiss free, Bamberg to Warsbseg and A=eisa:
bum, ash this to Wog about the eonnemon between the
Rhine, the Danube, and the Elbe.—Wiser Preen and
Augolirg Gazotlo.

- RAILWAY

TO TEN MOTTOS 01 TIM DULY POWS.
Bru,—ln my last eommunication I urged railway
roprietors, for directors will not take the initiation
i it, to combine and immediately cut down the over-
rown ealarise of the principals of various depart-

Until I received the reports of the committees of
investigation about the affairs of the York, New-
castle, and B•rwiek, at d York and North Midland
Railways, I was under the impression that high pay,
although an extravagance, was security for faith-
ful and activetervices; I now fl d that it hu brought
the recipients more on a level with the directors, and
has bad for consequence a want of integrity and atten-
tion to the intere.te of their real employers.
The workpeople on some lines have bad a mere
fraction subtracted from their wages for the sake of
economy, whilst leviathan salaries are left untouched ;
a proper retrenchmert even in one of them would
amoant to as much as has been obtained from
300 to 500 of the inferior servants.
&Bidet the mere fixed pay, there is not the
slightest doubt that a large amount of profit is
attached to various departments. For example, on
one line there is an annul' expenditure in the eogi-
eer's department of 240,0001. ; traffic manager's ditto,
140,0001.; coaching manager's ditto, 110,000/. Inde-
pendent of smaller departments, there is another,
which may be called the capitalist's department, re-
presenting an annual charge of 220,0001.
Whilst it is so generally admitted that the system
or contracts on all our lines of railway is so deLotive,
I would have committees of investigalon to examine
into the expenses of the " Engineer's Department;
" Traffic Manager's Department," " Coaching Ma-
nager's Department "—in short, into all which beer
upon the expenditure of the companies ; and if such
committees glapplt with the deta h of expenses, I
have riot the slightest doubt that the present orthodox
per centsge chargeable upon revenue Would be
sensibly diminished-. The fact is evident that direc-
tors have done nothing to decrease the expenditure
on railways, and I therefore think that we are on the
eve of important retrenchments, if shareholders gene-
rally will only now express a determination to have
them. A SUBSCRIBER.