The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

TIBER.

Fearful Railway Accident—This Day.

At a few minutes before six this morning a very serious
accident happened at the Bow extension of the Blackwall
Railway, which, in addition to causing a largo destruction
of property, completely put a stop for some time to all the
trains on the North London, Barking, Tilbury, and
Southend, North Woolwich, and the Woodford Railway.
It appears that a very heavy goods train was on its way
frepa Camden Town to liaydon-square, and when it
reached a point some 300 or 400 yards from Bow-common
one of the centre trucks left the metals. The train was
going at this moment at a very rapid rate, and the result of
the mishap to the truck was that a number of others got
into the same unfortunate position, and, as the couplings
held, the (train was drawn along in dreadful confusion.
Near to Stepney Junction the trucks came in contact with
the coping of the wall of the railway, and a large quantity
of the brickwork was knocked to the ground. The engine
driver, as soon as he felt the extra strain or drag, did all he
could to bring the train to a stoppage,but as the goods engines
employed by the London and North Western are of great
power, some distance had been traversed ere the
trucks which had left the rails had become de-
tached from the portion of the train in front. A
scene of the most indescribable confusion and wreck
then presented itself. Some of the trucks were
toppled over and crushed and overhanging the parapet
and the line, and the road beneath were scattered with the
contents of the waggons—flour and other merchandise.
The permanent way was torn up in sad havoc, a heavy
piece of brickwork at the Bow Common-bridge, where a
line of rails runs in, had been shivered by one of the trucks
which had dashed against it. In another part of the coping
a couple of truck-wheels, with the axle entire, had been
forced through the brick-work of the:wall, and fell into the
road beneath.

A great number of hands were immediately despatched
from the London terminus, and through their greatest exer-
tions the line was cleared for ordinary traffic.'

SHIPPING—This Day.

(RT,MAG HETIC TELEGRAPH.)
,---GnavEsExo, Monday Morning.

Arrived, Feb. B—Equity, from Girgenti; Vivid, from
Alexandria ' - Union, from Guernsey; Sappho, from Shang-
hae ; Lima, from Havannah; Two Friends, from Guernsey.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—Queen of the Plym, for Martinique; Jacques
Francais, for Cardiff; Syren, for Brest—all from London ;
Maranham, from Shields, for Kurrachee ; Queen of the
Avon, bark, from Colombo ; Weymouth, from Foo-chow-
foo (in tow)—both for London.
Anchored—Julius Heinreick, from Hull, for Constanti.
nople.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Opened.

Receipts.

Railways.

1863. 1862.

1863. 1862.
£ £

Belfast and N. Counties l3O
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B
Bristol and Exeter l2l}
Caledonian 230
Cockermouth & Workington B4
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l
Cork and Youghal 32i
Cornwall 531
Deeside l7
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 4B}
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l
Edinburgh and Gllasgow 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330
Great North of Scotland 5B
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) &29
Great 'Western 992
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno— 73}
Irish North-Western 145

1,668 1,847

551 493
1,351 1,8:57
5,2;7 5,173
15,789 15,718
196 261
301 287

Irish South-Eastern 2si
Lancashire & Yorkshire
. __ 395*

Limerick and Ennis... 2l 24i
Limerick and Foynes 26 26
Llanelly • 46 46
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 5
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2471 214
London, Chatham, & Dover 724 72}
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
51an..Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N. -'Western) 630
Midland Gt. Wes tn. of Irind 2491
Monkland 7l
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton... 42
Rh coney lOl
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central 53
Scottish North-Eastern . . 132
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon 751

South-Eastern 3o6Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale of
Ulster 5l
Vale of Ciwyd.
Vale of Neath 2s}
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27}
W.Hartlepoollfarbr.46Rail 39
W'haven,CleatorotEgrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction .12
Whitehaven & Furness Jun :l5

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 264
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l}
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 415
Great Luxembourg l3l
Great Western of Canada 315
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol
Norwegian Trunk -1
Ottoman ..
..... 4Bl

PRTW,idyOnS, & Mediterrn 149141
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco 7l
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian . l4ll
Southern of France .... 777
Welland. .. ...... ..., .25
West Flanders ... 75
W. and N.W. of France 758

1291
777