The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-09 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

➢iay 2

April 30
May 5

Arbroath and Forfar • •••• • • • •
Bristol and Birmingham . • • • • . • • • • . • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • ... • • • . • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda • • • • • • • • . •
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath . • • . • . • • . • • • • • •
Durham and Sunderland ..... • • . - • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • • • • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock•........
Grand Junction ....................
Gravesend and Rochester•••• • ..• ...
Great North of England ............
Great Western .
Hartlepool ...... ................
London and Birmingham, &c...... • .
London and 81ackwa11....... .......
London and 8right0n...............
London and Cr0yd0n.......
London and Greenwich ..
London and South We5tern.........
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Manchester and Birmingham . .
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Darlington ..........
Newcastle and Car1i51e......... .....
Newcastle and North Shields..
Norfolk.. • • • • • • .. • • ........ ........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel, and Orleans .• ........
Paris and Rotten ••• • • • ..
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • ..........
Sheffield and Manche5ter............
South Eastern • .
Taff Vale ...... ...........
Ulster . • ........ ......
.............
Yarmouth and Norwich ......
York and North Midland

625
746
1,731
311
567
3,270
8,333
2,024
899

190

19,275

850
36,401
1,029
4,292
1,481

7,155
1,087
4,466
6,129
15,801
2,595
1,843
427
1,206

709
1,749
293
785
2,631
5,099
1,692
879

6,022

143

573
1,589
6,851
1,176
623

16,485

4,801

33,069
1,217
4,322
1,222

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

There was on Tuesday issued, by order of the House
of Lords, a copy of Major-General Pasley's report of
his inquiry into an accident which occurred on the
Eastern Counties Railway on the 12th of April, in con-
quence of one of two engines, attached to a special
train getting off the rails. The report was presented
to Parliament by command of her Majesty ; and the
following extracts give the more material portions of the
document :

" Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, April 14, 1846.
" My Lord—l this day inquired into an accident
which occurred to a special train on the Cambridge
branch of the Eastern Counties Railway, on the 12th
instant, in consequence of an engine running off the
rails; and having seen Mr. Roney, the secretary, and Mr.
Scott, the locomotive engineer of the company, both of
whom were present at the time, I proceeded with them,
also accompanied by Mr. Waddington, deputy chairman,
and Mr. Phipps, resident engineer of the company, from
Stratford station, where I saw the engine alluded to,
and the injured carriages, to the spot where the accident
took place, near the loe mile post from London.
" This train, intended to accommodate persons going
to Newmarket to attend the races next morning, left
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drawn
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Slaughter, two
d
Slaughter, the foremost of which had inside, and the
latter outside, cylinders ; in other respects nearly
similar, with their respective tenders behind each, after
which followed one luggage van, five horse boxes, said
to contain thirteen horses, one second-class carriage, one
first-class carriage, one second-class carriage, three first-
carriages, and one carriagS truck, with a gig upon it.
" Mr. Scott travelled on the first engine and Mr.
Roney on the second, till they came to Lea-bridge sta-
tion, after which they both went together on the fore-
most engine, and were noting the speed with their
watches, which had increased to about 43 miles an hour,
when the second engine was observed to oscilate or
jump, and soon after quitted the rails, and ran on the
ballast, which it threw up with a crashing noise. As
soon as it went off the rails, the engine-man shut off
his steam all at once ; but the driver of leading en-
gine slacked his steam gradually in shutting it off,
and this engine 'still continued to draw the other
after it ; but, as a natural consequence of the en-
gines slackening their speed whilst one of them
was off the rails, the train, still being on the proper
rails, and of course moving for some time with
nearly the original velocity above-mentioned, stroolt the
tender of the second engine with such force that the
couplings broke, and the train ran off the rails to the
left of the line, and the goods van and all the hone
boxes ran down an embankment, and were overturned
in a wet ditch below the foot of the slope, the height of
the rails above the bank of this ditch being about
five feet, and their total height above the bottom of it
being about ten feet ; but the depth of water fortunate/}•
was moderate, or the horses must all have been drowned.
Two of them were, however, killed upon the spot, one
was obliged to be killed afterwards' and another was
seriously injured
.hut with hopes of recover), ; the re-
mainder are said to have been very little hurt.
The second-class carriage next to the last horse-
box fell upon one side, and had some of its
side pannels broken, and the steps broken or injured;
but, with the exception of their steps, none of the
other passenger carriages were damaged. The body of
the luggage van was knocked entirely to pieces, and
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occasioned by a break down, in front.
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