The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

PETERBOAOTIGH TO TOILIC.X.NGHAIKE LINE,

Mr. SANDERS called Mr. Boys, who occupies Fletland Mill,
an extensive mill, which has ten pair of stones, capable of
making from tour to six hundred sacks per week, who stated
that he already sent a considerably quantity of flour to Lei-
cester, and would, if this line were made, be enabled to send
a considerable quantity to Nottingham and Manchester; al-
though, it this line was not made, he would be excluded
from all advantages of this trade, and would indeed be in-
capable of competing with the millers who had greater faci-
lity of railway transit. At the present time he paid upwards
of ninepence per sack for the carriage of his flour to Peter-
borough, and would have to pay the same expense for its
carriage to the station of the Great Northern line. He was
aware that a line had been sanctioned from Ambergate to
Manchester, so that, by the proposed line to Folkingham, he
would get there on the most direct line, by the Ambergate to
Boston. He bought his corn chiefly at Bourn, Stamford,
and Peterborough, and for the transit of corn the line would,
therefore, afford him the only facility which he required.
To Mr. DENISON, who examined on behalf of Earl Fitz-
william, the witness replied that he was not aware that on
the Great Northern line the charges were to be made on the
geographical principle, nor did he believe that there were
many places, within the triangle described by the main and
loop lines of the London and York, and the Ambergate and
Boston lines, which were within the distance of five miles
from railway accommodation.
To Mr. ADAMS, who cross-examined for the London and
York, the witness replied that, in his opinion, the line from
Market Deeping, by the Ambergate line to the north, would
be shorter than by the Direct ).orthern, and so on by the
Stamford and Spalding line, but he bad never measured it.
To Mr. SANDERS, on re-examination, the witness replied,
that on getting to Peterborough he came to London either
by the North-Western or the Eastern Counties line, just as
he happened to hit the trains that were starting, although
the
former was ten miles further round. But there was, in
addition to that, the advantage of a terminus at Shoreditch,
which was of great advantage to those who had business to
y
transact in the City, With respect to the Svston and Peter-
borough Railway,. the Vi
property of the Midland Company-,
it was in reality workedP by Eastern Counties.
Mr. G. J. Heathcote eldest son of Sir G. Heath-
cote, Bart., stated that his faPtlyerand himself held property
in every parish, more or lees, alongr thei line, and that the
traffic
otiral districts in country was one of the richest a
had always existed.
Lin-
colnshire, through which a greatgtrae
Turning by Stilton from the Great Northa-orc,agieaford to the highway
held on by Peterborough, Folkingham,
a
Lin-
coln, and thence northwards to the Humber o
was a continual traffic of mail coaches, post cn
haises there ich
as of waggons and every other kind of agricultural c;trarsiawge
well
go great, indeed, that fifty years ago his father had built a
very large inn at Folkingham for its accommodation, and it
had always been well supported.
To Captain HARI:I3, Mr. Heathcote replied that there
was a great traffic which absolutely required railway accom-
modation, and that the route of this road was separated from
the loop line of the London and York Railway by a great
deal of high ground, and from the main line by several
parks and the want of roads, so that it could oily be reached
at two points.
To Mr. DENISON, the witness would not allow that every '
place within the triangle was within five miles of an estab-
lished railway.
To Mr. ADAMS, Mr. Heathcota replied that he conceived
the line to be traversed between Bourn and Grantham was
difficult, both from the interposition of high land, and the
circumstance of there being a great number of gentlemen's
houses in that part of the country. He was aware that a con-
siderable quantity of the corn grown about Bourn was sold
at Grantham, but it was not without great cost and labour,
the trains being frequently out all night.
On re-examination, Mr. Ileathcote replied that he be-