The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-08 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. e.......... ,-__,_,..._
1858. 1857. 1858-9. 1857-8..‘
£ X
Ballymena and Portrush 35 35 - -
liedale and Leyburn lO 10 86 79
Belfast and Ballymena 6.5 65 1,082 1,0(12
Belfast and County Down 2O 17 534 235
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June 32 32 2,580 2,365
Myth and Tyne 2O 13 990 784
Bristol and Exeter llB . 117 6,385 5,951
Caledonian
Ches. &Holyhead(with 31o1d) 941 94 4 461 4,172
Cockermouth & Workington 84 8 163 232
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 247 266
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 268 240
Deeside l7 17 235 201
Dublin .?.r, Belfast Junction 56 56 1,109 1,052
Dublin .I.nd Drogheda 63 63 1,306 1,258
Dub ~,, Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 40% 40% 1,627 1,801
Duu jk and Enniskillen
Dundli... and Arbroath 17% 174 61.8 696
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 1,054 867
East Anglian 674 674 868 858
E.Counties,Nrlk.,&E.Union 489 489 22,410 22,043
East Kent 194 - 28,5 -
E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn; 111 105 6,035 5,026
Edinburgh and Glasgow , 142 142 5,288 4,753
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,434 3,328
Forth & Clyde Junction - - 260 215
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western. 1831 183/ 7,409 6,510
Great Northern 283 283 25,171 25,040
Great North of Scotland
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 229 2034 5,185 5,424
Great Western 466 466 24,694 21,718
Hull and Holderness
Inverness & Aberdeen June 57 15 614 -
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 200 235
Killarney Junction
Lancaster and Carlisle (in
Kendal and Windermere) 100 t 100 5 588 5,468
Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 299, 299 24,140 18,92 g
Limerick and Foynes 26- 110 94
Llanelly 4f,-,• 3, 427 431
London & North-Western - 647 55,388 49,340
London and Blackwall sd • 1,421 1,307
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 199 183 12,786 12,777
Ls'derry and Enniskillen
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend. 421 40 1,030 1,099
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh. 1731 1734 10,274 9,036
Manch. S.J un.& Alt rincham 9 91 946 925
Ma port and Carlisle
Midland
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind • 177 177 2,763 2,552
Monkland 52 52 1,473 1,101
Moumouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 1,142 1,736
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,930 2,735
Newport,Aberg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,365 1,052
North British (in. Dalkeith; 149 149 5,891 5,505
North Devon 35 35 - -
North-Eastern 7254 720 29,326 27,781
North London 9 9 2,238 2,247
North Staffordshire 233 233 7,551 6,601
North-Western 464 464 832 786
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 101 - 81 -
Oxford, Wore., & Wolver 94 94 4,376 4,010
Peebles lB 18 193 201
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 • .30. 1,830 1,262
Scottish Central 5O 50 . 2,518 2,403
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,456 3,479
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 1,599 1,524
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union 291 29 946 964
South Devon
South-Eastern 3Ol 301 19,378 19,065
South Wales l7l 171 5,965 6,909
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,434 2,440
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 53 38 3,601 :2,15.3
Ulster 36 36 1,491 1,214
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Neath 251 251 1,207 1,009
Warrington and Stockport l2 12 - -
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 - -
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall 274 274 500 508
W.Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail 39 39 2,760 2,775
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 489 335
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 443 327
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 - -
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. •
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 702 620
Austrian B2B 673 25,404 30,187
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 - -
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5l 140 1,512 1,066
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 2,997 3,275
Grand Trunk of Canada 879 849 9,388 12,005
Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884 1,512 1,066
Great Luxembourg 122 38 1,552 788
Great Western of Canada 294 283 7,611 0,951
Lombardo-Venetian 283 219 7,599 6,608
Lyons and Geneva 142 107 :1,932 2,299
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 284 176 7,915 5,175
Maria Antonia' 2l 21 238 229
Northern of France 574 574 43,794 38,331
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 478 449
Paris, Lyons,'& Mediterrn B4l 781 76,150 57,762
1 Paris and Orleans 922 771 50,674 40,257
. Pals and Strasburg 979 791 44,202 36,081
R,oyal Danish . 69 69 400 397
i Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,529 1.500
So Ahern of France 777 577 15,852 10,181
West Flanders -
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W. and N.W. of France 716 591 31,612 , 20, 083