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

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A most serious interruption of traffic has occurred on
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, its, 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 question, 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 issited
for the main line north of Birmingham, and, under these
circumstances, the morning mail for the midland districts
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-bags and parcels from Dar-
lington. No other train from the Midland district had
arrived at 8 o'clock, and telegraphic messages announced
that the Manchester line was still blocked.

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GREAT NORTIMN.

Notwithstanding the arduous exertions of Mr. S.
Clarke, superintendent of the line, aided by other officers
of the company and a large body of labourers, the main
line between Peterborough and Newark continued
blocked throughout Wednesday night and the whole of
Yesterday- Their exertions, however, were more suc-
cessful on the loop line which diverges from the main
line at Peterborough, and joins it again at Retford, be-
yond Newark. One line of rails was cleared during the
night, and, instructions were consequently telegraphed
to King tecross to book passengers through to York by
that route. The down trains, therefore, started as
timed, but very few passengers preseuted themselves
during, the day. The first through train since Tuesday
night which came in was a mixed train from York,
bringing all the detenus up to the time of its departure.
This arrived at King's-cross at 4.20 yesterday afternoon.
A second train arrived from York, which city it quitted
at 12.30 p.m., about 9 o'clock, being about an hour and
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The Great Northern Company are fortunate in having a
second line to fall back upon when their main line be-
comes obstructed. But for this circumstance the traffic
on their railway between London and the north must
have suspended, perhaps for several
beendays,by .t
Railway Company
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snowstorm.
It is calculated the Great
Northern will lose between 4,000/.
and 5,0001, by the suspension of traffic, especially the
yesterday that a special train, drawn by
coal traffic, consequent on the storm.
EASTERN COUNTIES.
We stated
several powerful engines, wos despatched from the
Shoreditch station at 9 o'clock on Wednesday night to
Cambridge,wev through of making another attempt to
force o
Chesterford. This train,
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far as Elsenham, from which
however,
proceeded
with
the the
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place it was impossible to make any progress. It was
thereforeStortford, where it re-
mained dl putiing back
the to Bishop's
night, and was taken on yesterday
morning. The down mail train also came to a stand at
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Elsenham, and, like the special, was backed to Bishop's
Stortford, where it likewise remained on Wednesday
night,
on
journey as early as deemed
practicable butb proceeded
morning, The vast accumulation
of snow at Chesterford may be
imagined from the fact
that nearly 400 men were engaged in its removal from
rileyesterday saor
4 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and during the night,
until 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which hour a
telegraphic message from Chesterford announced that an
opening . had been made. At the same hour, however,
the Norwich mail, due at 4.15 a.m.,
had not arrived,
nor was it expected for some considerable time. This
train was their blocked in near Ely, where the snow had
drifted to an immense extent, and where several hun-
dreds of men were engaged in its removal. Throughout
yesterday considerable confusion prevailed at the Shore-
ditch
station, in consequence of the number of people
Who arrived there for the purpose of proceeding by the
various trains, many of which had been suddenly dis-
continued.
At 9 o'clock last night a telegraphic despatch, re-
ceived
at the Shoreditch station, conveyed the gratifying
—......fsshwi intelligence that the entire line, with the exception of
....1 consequence of the absence of advices, caused by the the loops, had been cleared, after almost superhuman
non-arrival of the northern and other mails, 530 bills were exertions. The Norwich mail arrived about 13 hours
noted on Wednesday evening by the Bank of England, behind its time, and the down mail was despatched
and the same was the ease also to it large extent at the
after 9 o'clock. At half past 9 a telegraphic
shortly
various print:: hatillie. llhe instances, however, wouldreceived from Thetford,•
stating that
hair. communication was
.., peen much more numerous, but for the use of the at that
an accident had just occurred place, through a
electric telegraph. the line •
No letters were received in the city yesterday from train or engine running off . ,in consequence of
Liverpool or Manchester, or, indeed, any place north of the points sticking. No particulars could be ascertained,
Wolverhampton. From Aberdeen the last letters were I
but it was understood that the accident was not of a
on the 30th of December. The Glasgow and Belfast
'serious character.
advises are three days overdue, and the Edinburgh and 1 . the exception of the
Dublin two days. The mails from the west (Bristol, I All the trains, with . express,
will
Exeter, &c.) were delivered yesterday afternoon at 3be forwarded to-day ; the quick rate of travelling of the
o'clock, and those from the eastern counties (Ipswich,
latter being considered dangerous, the directors came to
&c.) at about 4. rivate the determination to suspend them.
According to the elbourne Morning Herald,SOUTH-EASTERN.
raid, a
letter received in Victoria states that the new governor I 1
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The Dover mail, due at 4.50 yesterday morning, did.
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