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London, England, 1841-07-09 00:00:00

STATIONS.

STATIONS.

Rotherham Holmes
Brightside Sheffield
Slamannan Railway f
Is a small Railway in the county of Stirling, running -7
north branch of Ballochney Railway to the Edinburgh 3'1450:
gow Union Canal at Causeway End. Its course is throu...octol;
trict abounding in iron, stone, and coal, and the landed P: to tri)
through whose estate this Railway was to pass Prestuircd '°o/
Railway Company such portions of the land as they
the line. The length is about one mile and a half. Ito, is
the way is four feet ,six inches. The number of Iglu.-
Capital 135,0001.

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South Eastern Railway.
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This Railway is the line of communication with 1."`", toe
the
coast of France. Leaving the Brighton Railway at 111",,,s frolsi's•
it runs through the Weald of Kent to Dover. Its log"' d
junction with the Brighton Railway is sixty.six miles and fOl4l
and from the terminus at Tooley.street eighty-seven 011,00, $
three chains; the gage is the same as the Brighton, Cr°3o.3. 1'
Greenwich Railways, viz., four feet, eight and a-half inch o It/
Act of Incorporation received the Resat Assent 21st ofPno-'1
.41)
The capital is 1,850,000/. ; the number of shares 28,11% 'esett's'
This line is a magnificent specimen of British skill a° ostr';
Napoleon boasted of his route over the Simplon as the ;nig sett'
complishment of modern engineering, but the tunnel thdrctsc
Shakspeare Cliff, the sea wall adjoining this tunnel, ands thel, 0
rious excavations along the coast for this line of railwaYr
not surpass, are equal to any of the engineering works c, est',
or any other man or nation. The Shakspeare Tunnel 1400°,
through the Chalk Cliff for a length of 1,430 yards, the 100°'
Cliff Tunnel 2,200 yards, the Tower Tunnel 616. Ibt'
is yet unfinished.
South Western Railwar.
sat sot
This Railway was projected by Mr. Giles in 1.825,
for carrying on the present line did not cbtain the Pion's.r
until the year 1834. Mr. Giles'stiperintended the svol's cogilw to
year 1837, when he resigned In 'favour of Mr. Locke, t,ett
of the Grand Junction Railway. The original intent „et 'is
carry the line direct from London to Portimoutlsi'oo fo'it
opposition of the Portsmouth people caused a dirert_ 0/0,
the direct course; they have since seen their error °jo
is now too late. Instead of a principal line to !'.ft tse
the Gosport branch is only an auxiliary to the rah' ''esepert' 10
the passing of the Act empowering the continuation to 113,10!ject
Directors have very foolishly changed the name or the wale' srf
the South Western Railway. Every one knew theierip
of the Southampton Railway, but the name the Bathvaslate,i,se
is, what the Railway is not, unless the arriere pensee rt too
for be that the present Railway will hereafter form fotoalrio
great south-western communication to Cornwall- Se( fslizosf
must soon become the packet station of the south r;d4ol
and the completion of the magnificent docks noW 11,0st-uth
there, in spite of official jobbing, will cause the the Ifor
packets to make this port. When this event halTerls'oe 14,04'
ampton Railway will be a very profitable undertaking' or, it;
the incorporation of this Company passed on the `2sthoous,Otiscl
The capital authorised to be raised by this Act Was l'AserePse
'5O/., shares, and an additional sum,by loan, of 330,0001.
00 die jol
was passed in 1837, which received the Royal Asse°!tieeal4gg
of June, and empowered the Company to raise an add''' of i`t
The for
of 400,0001., and by loan, 130,0001. In the segiou:n ' ocobrr
third Act was passed, enabling the Company to raise °v si3O
0'
the purpose of constructing the branch to Gosport. w lege
of original shares of 501. each is 20,000, and °„f e
po 0 11'e'crr,i11404
of 251. each 16,000; the latter having the "".
with regard to dividends as the original 'hr rre
'
which there are 6,000 50/, shares in the
so that the whole number of shares is 4%-',o`2ot tswe,i,:re
are two tunnels at Popham, 600 feet long, '2ss..ttespelif Ole
feet high ; one at Walter's Ash, 1,500 feet long. ado ovine
nel, 600 feet long, 25 feet wide, 22 feet high ; the al 0/
way is 4 feet 8i inches. The entrance to the Balla
c. Tite,
Elms, is a very great elevation, designed by
architect of the New Royal Exchange. canr'il°
"The advantages proposed by this Railway are suChl' sar
to prove beneficial to the public and profitable to its gr"„
' not
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shareholders. The line has favourable levels, an- lits
ever to be superseded by any competing line. AL saely" sr's,
forms a communication between the two millions of t",r- boo(' r
and their resorts of pleasure in the valley of the ,$t
this is no precarious source of income, but one which Vs, tl,e
lucrative while the innate English sympathy for,„.ssteal''re
exists, and it is little likely that scenes corls.:00e010,00
songs of our poets for centuries can by ailssrli test. OiCi
lotion of taste lose their attraction. To its south s
icr
it is again the road of pleasure-seekers to a
tbe is
otrO
most frequented watering-places ;to the scenery °of t,
Wight, Guernsey, and Jersey, and to the wh°le.t
France. Nor are its commercial prospects less ;%d thtirrel'
manufacturing districts of the Mole, the Wandle, of 40.
the outlets of the agricultural riches of the spilt' sod ;o'4
and it commands the whole of West Sorrel to ,uil!
sex. By turning round at a right ogle
to sost,
Hampshire, it affords a communication t°dossiet..4,oen
which
of England 'f, and proceeds through 8 .01
aye eod
important in agriculture to Southampton, is sin
an admirable commercial position. This tows: et serss is
tural colleague of Havre, the port of Paris, of the Jul,/ 9 1,30'0000
the seat of the French American trade. A itvi„ ,t,
French Chamber to authorise the formation of - soro
Ater a tial' /IP
Havre to Paris, which cannot fail to afford gres onion sly
/0
The present coach traffic is sev-sool.l'''''s
thirteen the coach traffic between London and .Liverr- Ass
South Western Railway Guide.
STATIONS.
Nine Elms. Winchficld.
Wandsworth. Hartley Itoiv•
Wimbledon. Basingstoke.
Kingston." Popham. behl`:=
Di ton Marsh. A and N
Walton "w'nh
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Weybridge. T
Weking. Southampton'
Fanborough.
it alit' state'
* Wishavr's Railways of Great Br ,tfig
.
t Being used by the Exeter coaches as far as
6
gee
Stockton and Darling-ton „ss
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0 i Andover
This Railway was constructed for the Por7inent. tsircl
coals nom the great coal-field to the ports of sh'sfso the,„olo.,
Act was obtained in 1821 ; the second in I°:so' colvris fue
1824; the fourth in 1828. The capital of 1410 gageoo,enl"
~
280,0001; the shares are 1,000 of 100/, each. the it/coo
feet eight and a half inches. Upon this ItailwaYos trains
s.
engine was first extensively tried. The numbewt.,;, as"'
each direction is six—three first-class and three gb
ST/11101s.
\vire Assularld
Stockton
Darlington.
Shildon
Middlesborough osviti hat'
Stockton and Hartlepool tw „1,0-
lutes a' nJo
Runs out of the Clarence Railway, and terra;
withsut a 4 fret 91
boor, Hartlepool. This Railway was completed the gage. .secr
lion to Parliament. Its length is SI Intl";
for the Con'''
inches. This line was constructed mainly
coals to Hartlepool.
-41101. .1'.6 PS'
Whitby and Pickering 1174
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Is worked entirely by horses; its length is
is 4 feet 8i inches; the capital is 135,000/-
na'15514
York and North midland midland
Commences at the Altoft station of the North 002:311°0/11isfc
of
and terminates at York. The length of the „ fichLstoei,te
short distance from Castleford station is To%t7cs thee° toe
battle was fought on Palm Sunday, 1641, hne'ssott in l°
York and Lancaster. 108,660 men were c rooo9
arc
and 36,776 were killed in the battle. Tile st L_Je
she
Altoft Ulleskelfe
rc
Casticford
Bolton re
BEirton Salmon
Milford