The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

Miles Opened.

Railways.

~--..-
1862. 1861.

Belfast and N. Counties 136
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 22
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian

Cockermouth&Working,ton 8}
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6}
Cork and Youghal ...... 32
Cornwall 531
21} Deeside l7
. .. ~ .._

Dublin & Belfast Junction 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 4Bf
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l
Edinburgh and tillas,g,ow l69}
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 644
Great Northern 330
Great North of Scotland 5B
G t..Nortnn. & Westn. (Irel.) 57
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329
Great Western 992
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 73f
Irish North-Western 145
Irish South-Eastern 2.5f
Lancashire & Yorkshire 39561
Limerick and Ennis... 24
Limerick and Foynes 2
Llanelly 46
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall tit
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2474
London, Chatham, & Dover 72}
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Shatield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham„ 9}
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of'lrind 1924
Monkland 714
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car_ 8941
North London 9
North Staffordshire 248
..,

Oswestry and Newton... 42
Rhymney 194
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 132
Shropshire Union 294
Somerset and Dorset 394
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster
_

Vale of Clwyd .. 10
Vale of Neath 2s}

Waterford and Kilkenny .... ; 31
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27}

ifepOo arbr. &Rail.
Wiliaven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 264
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l}
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern of France
East Indian

Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 495
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Alieant 439
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 4B

Paris, Lyons, tvz Mediterrn 1401
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco 7l

Royal Danish
Sambre and Meuse

South Austrian
Southern of France •• • • 777
We11and.........

1234
777

West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758

The traffic receipts of railwa7s in the United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending Dec. 20, on 10,505 miles, to
£531,735, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
10,186 miles, to £535,995, showing an increase of 319 miles,
and a decrease of £1,260 in the receipts. The gross receipts
on the tolloing 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on
an increase of
7,2'27
186 u
1,
oniii7e,so,ol,o BLuXilo
1e'28,,7t022171d 37,7fu9r3,tbe showing an
xlding week of
221 miles, and a decrease of £7,071 in the recipte. The
decrease on the Great Eastern amounted to £1,947, on the
Great Northern to £697, on the Great Southern and Western
to £35, on the Great Western to £2,946, on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire to £1,501, on the London and South-Western
to £1,534, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
to £2lB, on the Midland to £466, and the South-Eastern to
£1,261; total, £10,605. But from this must be deducted
£lO6, the increase on the Caledonian, £1,159 on the London
and North-Western, £877 on the London, Brighton, and
South Coast, £340 on the North British, and £1,052 on the
North-Eastern ; together £3,531, leaving the dec ease, as
above, £7,071. The goods and mineral traffic on those lines
amounted to £236,501, and for the corresponding week of
1861 to £229,126, showing an increase of £7,378. The re-
ceipts for passengers, parcels, Bcc., amounted to £184,218,
against £198,667, showing a decrease of £14,419. The traffic
receipts on 61 other lines amounted, on 3,279 miles, to
£111,013, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
3,180 miles, to £108,202, showing an increase of 99 miles,
and of £2,811 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show an increase of £12,623 as compared with
those of the preceding week ending the 13th inst.

Receipts.

1862. 1861.
£ £

1,821 1,851

590 621
1,800 1,692
6,z02 6,491
15,563 15,457
294 176
299 343