The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

. STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.
The first railways, which were of wood, although much anscriot
to the mode then in use, were probably inferior to the prereattrit-
pike loads, CeS which a bone drool about 16 cot. at an avenge.
Such, however, is the pentane' so which the art has now arrived,
that. as Was stated in our fondle, paper. e single horse on the sievel
or slightly descending putt of the Darlington cutaway, the rfft•er
being no doubt partly aiJe4 by the descent, can draw a weight of
16 tons, that is, as many tens can be &atm on the railway as ewe).
'on a common cod • end- each of the locomotive engines draws a
weight of 90 tons, led sac convey from Brueseiton to Stockton. a
distance of 20 nalled," and deliver into the ships, from 300 to f,OO
tone_of coal weekly. ;
lirith such prodigious powers of locomotion and treckaee, not
wonder that the expenses of transport should have been greatly re-
duced ; and to each an extent has this been effected. that the Com-
pany have actually let the haulage or their coal, they furnishing
the engines and waggons, at 46. per ton to each mile, which
• h Understood to pay the contractors well, and the Company
Understood
Me are ambled to awry coals from Brunehen hill le.
, at Silt fate of Id. per on for each mite, the mu
by thitAtiltiet AI, and other expenses id. On the Inclined
Manes 'et plir ton, in addit:on to the, is chard on'
each for nee of the machinery.Setwece gruotelsoo Hsi), ,
110wilvers, and • likeektoo, the way is free, and hare the. Co-
mes
piny, we amok are enabled to convey and to deliver
cosh ipso 'she si
anent t es thei Trds,fat the rrooleOf one pelny
M=tairik lawdmalai A roes-are r.achl;3fghwer, ontdw:llotyonmliiiento.
end other odd* • besuitathe prices are very !ow, and such leas
beg the ter Wl*. that coals st Stockton' which formerly
MK* lits. essioarsaNifilort Rs. 6d. per ton. The shore feet of the
,ronsazragrisip •la . surprising, and we believe quite un-
, *ohs tapa of s land ;raffle; and lied the executhin of
*la railwariseat Ironies else than to leave ascertained and proved
Ik. by its dal tad weekly practice for nearly a twelvemonth toge..
libpe, it would have conferred a signal benefit on the country; and
tMit as the nation. It certainly reflects the highest credit on the
nit awl notes of the design, who, v/e enderstantl, were
to the Society of Friends, and *Severed. in their
dilliagties and diseouragingayenmstancei, but
11s • nth satisfaction and pride on an act which
isff themselves, their country, and the age in which we
and, of course, other materials and goods, in the some,
ot Y e same proportion, may be conveyer' to a dietance,
at the charge of one penny per ton for each mile. What I traps of
r hbportant consequences does not this single feet involve; and as
Lam this can be done in other Ogees, what a wonderful field is thus
opened for internal improvement. At present we arc paying, on
best turnyike roads, as much as this, and more, fug tauten:,
awl Mx or eight times as much for all the expenses of carriage.
Coal, for example, from the vicinity of Dalkeith, eats in Edin-
burgh, which is only six miles distant, 45. per ton for carnets
albne, which at the above rates on the railway would only amount
to Bd.; and coal Imported at Leith costs 3s. ttel. pet ton for thtear-
riage up to Edinburgh, and as the distance is only two, or at most
two and a half miles, the carriage by the railway would °nixes!:
24d. Coal also from the .Union Canal Basin costs Is. 3d. for car-
Sage to the centre of the town, the distance of which is scarcely a'
mile. Stone, again, for oar buildings in Edintringh; front
the great quarries of Craigleith and Hailes, dipole the former
two miles and the latter four from the centre of the town,
1 cost respectively 2e. 2d. and 3s. 2d. per „ cart, or 2s. 811.
I and 3s. I Id. per ton for carriage, while by the railway it would
only come to 11. and 441., and any additional charge for carrying
along the streets and delivery might bring it to Ad. and 81.. Be.
tween Glasgow and Edinburgh, one of out greatest thorouebfaret
the carriage of such articles as are usual), c-nveyed along that Toast
costs some It.. and others millet as 31. and Gl. pet ton; the average
may run about 2/., told the distance being 41 miles, this is-yeti
natty at the rate of Il el. per ton for each mile. Even Canstriatii.
gatron conies much short of the above standard of one penny a ton
p mile. On the Union Canal, for egample, costs shipped• trout
`Redding Colliery, Cost at Port Hopctoun 4s. 84d, for the expases
I of transport, and the distance being 2G miles. this is at the rate of
i 2.1. or double the expense by the railway. But the distance by the
road is only 22 miles, and by a proper railway would be no
greater ; and this brings she comparative expense up very neatly to
24d. a ton per raise. On the blogkialwl Canal, again, in the neigh-
bourhood of Glasgow, the distance from One of the coal pits to the
lifonkland basin is 104 miles, and thel expense of transport 2s, 2d.,
which is at the rate very nearly of 21d. per ton.
Such then is the euperimity of thus new mode of erneveyence over
any other that has hitherto been invented. In our neat paper we
shall follow out the details, and in particular give a view Of 'the
advantages that would moult to the public front a rail-way bentosen
Edinburgh grul alkaugow.--Cailedaragia Me rem rg.