The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-12 00:00:00

12, 1846.

DONCASTER LINES.—The railway plans deposited with
the clerk of the parish, preparatory to the introduction
of Bills into Parliament, in the ensuing session, are five
in number. And though no entirely new line is con-
templated in this neighbourhood, yet certain proposed
stations, extensions, alterations, and improvements of
existing lines are to be submitted to the Legislature,
which appear to us well calculated to improve their
general usefulness, and materially to benefit this locality
in particular. One capital feature in these plans is the
proposal to place the station near the centre of the
town, which will prove a matter of great convenience
to our townspeople. The plans are entitled—Great
Northern (Deviations between Grantham and York) ;
Great Northern (Deviations between Peterborough,
Boston, and Doncaster) ; South Yorkshire, Doncaster,
and Goole Railway (Purchase of Sheffield, Rother-
ham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole
Railway, and of Dun Navigation, and Dearne and Dove
Canal) ; Midland (Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, and
Goole Line, &c.) ; Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncas-
ter Junction :(Masbrough to Doncaster.)—Doncaster
Gazette.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
' NEW SAFETY LUGGAGE VANS.—The Eastern Union
has just received from Liverpool a supply of luggage
vans constructed on a principle that combines safety to
the train, with accommodation for the luggage. The
van is rather longer than a second class carriage, con-
siderably higher, and so firmly built and tied by iron
work as to be capable of resisting a very powerful shock.
The fore breast is made of iron, the sides are surrounded
by iron stags, the buffers are 60 strong and the screws
so powerful and elastic, that one would think they could
not be snapped in a collision. The interior of the van
is divided into compartments, so as to carry luggage
for different stations ; and the guard has a room in the
end next the train, where he can use a power-break, and
at the same time see a considerable distance before the
engine. We understand similar vans are to be placed
on the London and North-Western line.
TACTICS OF THE LARGE LINES.— The London and
,North-Western Company have purchased the Shropshire
Union lines, and if our maps are correct, it would appear
that they cannot get access to their new territory, with-
out passing over the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, un.
less they run up their own line to Stafford; and to go
from Birmingham to Shrewsbury, rid Stafford, would be
very like preterring two sides of a triangle to a straight
line, for it is nearly a straight line from Birmingham to
Shrewsbury, via Wolverhampton. Then again, it ap•
pears that the Chester and Wolverhampton line of the
Shropshire Union must use the Shrewsbury and Birm
ingbam for two or three miles out of Wolverhampton ;
while the Shresbury and Stafford line of the same com-
pany runs for no less than ten miles (from Shrewsbury
to Wellington) on the Shrewsbury and Birminghani
Now to our minds, the possession by the London and
North-Western of a line, which not only lies between a
portion of their own great schemer, but which most
positively disjoints them, must be of consequence in
many points of view, and especially as regards the
efficient and economical working of the whole, for
if there be one thing in tho railway system more
universally admitted than another, it is the importance
of having a long continuous line under one uniform
management. 1 here is also another consideration. The
London and North Western Company have already so
great an interest in the Stour Valley line that no one
can doubt they ve.ll ultimately be its sole owners. This
would give the Leviathan company a right in the great
central station to be erected at Wolverhampton by the
Stour Valley and Shrewsbury and Birmingham Com-
panies, and we should think would afford an additional
reason for getting possession of the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham line, as they would then be in a position to
make terms with all the other companies (opponents as
well as friends), who must run into the Wolverhampton
station, and generally avoid all the complication which
would exist were the Shrowsbury and Birmingham to
remain an independent company, separating the gigantic
trunk of the London and North-Western from its co-
lossal limbs in the west and north-west. It is not for us
to predict which of the two great companies will offer
the most liberal terms for the Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham line, but we think that either would be glad of it,
and we are by no means singular in our opinion.-- Wor-
cestershire Chronicle.