The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-06 00:00:00

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EAS7E.RN

RAILWAY.

NARROW ESCAPE OF MORE THAN ONE HUN-

DRED LIVES.

The passengers by the 10,30 train from Shore-
ditch station to Hertford were on Friday night last
thrown into the utmost state of alarm on finding
the carriages come to a standstill a moment or two
after they left the departure platform. On looking
out they found the danger signals flaming as far as
the eye could reach, but were unable to learn from
the railway officials the cause of their detention.
The train having backed again, endeavoured to
move forward, but with no better success than be-
fore_ The process of retrogression was again re-
peated, and the train having been shunted from the
down to the up rails, at length commenced, but with
extreme caution, to creep forward, and so the pas-
sengers, more than 100 in number, were able to as-
certain the cause of their detention, for they saw
between the goods station at Brick-lane and the
Mile-end platform a large body of men repairing
the down line, which had been broken up by the cir-
cumstance of some heavily laden trucks having
got off the metals and ploughed up the perma-
nent way to some extent. It was fortunate that
1 the accident in question was so timely sig-
nalled, else the Hertford train would have
continued its course on the down line, when
probably a catastrophe not less appalling in less of
life and limb than that which last year occurred at
Kentish-town might have been the result.

2IIE STEPHENSON 1110NU3IEN7 IN
NEWCASTLE.

The monument to George Stephenson, erected by
public subscription in Neville-street, opposite the
central station in Newcastle-on-Tyne, was inaugu-
rated on Thursday with every demonstration cf po-
pular respect. It consists of a statue of the great
engineer by his townsman, Mr. Lough, one of the
eminent sculptors of the day, together with emble-
matical figures, representing a blacksmith, a plate-
layer, a pitman, and an engine-driver. The whole
is extremely effective, and the likeness is considered
extremely good. The day was set apart as a holiday
in all the principal factories and places of business
in the town and district, and the proceedings com-
menced at noon by the workmen employed in Messrs.
R. Stephenson and Co.'s factory, in Messrs. Hawks,
Crawshay, and Sons, Messrs. Thomson and Co.,
Messrs. Hawthorn, Elswick Engine and Ordnance
Works ; Messrs. J. Abbott and Co., Messrs. Crowley,
Millington, and Co., and the members of the An-
cient Order of Foresters and Odd Fellows, with the
members of other friendly societies, marching in an
immense procession through the principal streets to
the Town-hall, where they joined the executive
committee, the members of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, of Mechanical Engineers, and of Mining
Engineers, the president and committees of educa-
tional societies in the town and district, the members
of Parliament for the district, and foreign consuls,
the mayors of all the towns in the neighbourhood,
with the chairmen and members of other corporate
bodies, the chairmen
and directors of the North-
Eastern and other railways, the member of the Coal
Trade Association,
and proceeded to the inaugura-
.tion. Lord itavcnsworth delivered the inaugural
address.