The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN.

The trains here since Wednesday morning have con-
tinued to arrive and depart pretty punctually, no fur-
ther inconvenience than that recorded yesterday having
been experienced.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.

A most serious interruption of traffic has occurred on
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this line. When the Liverpool and Manchester morning
mail train arrived on Wednesday 12.30 p.m., nearly
eight hours behind its time, after having been blocked
for five hours in the cutting at Tring, it was confidently
anticipated, as stated yesterday, that this train having
cleared the way, other trains would follow an hour or
two late. Unfortunately, however, the hope proved to
be fallacious, the train in qutstion, as it now appears,
having come on in advance of the snow, leaving more
formidable drifts behind it than that in which it became
embedded at Tring. Except from the Birmingham line no
other train arrived during Wednesday, and no other had
arrived up to yesterday afternoon ; the station master
at Euston-square learning by telegraphic despatch that
the Manchester and Liverpool line was so completely
blocked up below Stafford that clearing it so as to allow
the passage of a train during the course of yesterday was
all but hopeless. The mail-train which left Liverpool on
Wednesday morning, and that which left London on
Wednesday night, with numerous other trains, remained

blocked at Stafford, where a demand arose for beds,
which the town could hardly supply. Telegraphic de-
spatches also stated that the Trent Valley line was im-
passable, as was also the Holyhead line, upon which the
snow lies piled in parts to the height of nine feet.
Captain Huish and the resident engineer were engaged
during the whole of Wednesday night and yesterday
with a large body of labourers in endeavouring to re-
move the obstructions, but so vast was the accumulated
mass of snow that their progress was necessarily slow.
Up to 11 o'clock last night no fewer than 13 through
trains were due at Euston-square, not one of which it
was expected could possibly arrive until to-day. The
Midland line from Rugby downwards remained also
completely blocked, no train from Derby, Nottingham,
Leicester, or the entire district having arrived since the
storm set in. The superintendent of this line yesterday
telegraphed instructions to Euston-square to issue no
tickets to the Midland stations, while Capt. Huish, from
Stafford, also directed that no tickets should be issued
for the main line north dt Birmingham, and, under these
circumstances, the morning mail for the midland district,
as well as for Manchester and Liverpool, was yesterday
forwarded via Birmingham, whence the various bags
will be despatched to their respective destinations in the
best manner possible. At the same time, it was deter-
mined that a strenuous effort should be made to push the
mail train of last night along its usual route. Telegra-
phic messages and guards arriving spoke of snow falling,
but not in large quantities. Upon inquiry subsequently
at the Euston station, it was ascertained that the block-
up on the Midland line had been partially removed, so
as to admit of the arrival of the North British mail train
shortly after 4 o'clock p.m., 36 hours after its time, it
having been due at 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning. This
train brought in the letter-baks and parcels from Dar•
lington. No Pther train from the Midland district had
arrived at 8 o'clock, and telegraphic messages announced
that the Manchester line was still blocked.