The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-19 00:00:00

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Railway and other Companies.

GREAT NORTHERN.

The report of the directors states that the total
capital of the company now amounted to
£16,041,900, including that of the Leeds, Brad-
ford, and Halifax, and of the 'West Yorkshire Rail-
way Companies, pursuant to the amalgamation acts
of last session. The works on the lines in course of
construction between Doncaster and Gainsborough,
March and Spalding, and Lincoln and Honington
were progressing steadily, and the gradients on the
loop line were also being improved. It was expected
that the whole of those works would be completed
in the course of the year, and the Great Eastern
district would then be connected with the north by
a direct and nearly level line from March to Don-
caster. The connection between the Metropolitan
and the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways at
Farringdon-street was completed and opened for
traffic on Ist Jan. last. Through booking arrange-
ments for passengers between the Chatham Com-
pany's system and the Great Northern were now in
force, and goods and coal traffic would be commenced
next month. The Hatfield and St. Alban's branch,
six miles in length, was opened for traffic in Octo-
ber last. The high rate of interest for money had
retarded issue of the company's 4 per cent. deben-
ture stock; £41,482 had been received on that ac-
count during the half. year. The revenue account
for the half-year ending Dec. 31 showed that the
gross receipts amounted to £1,045,371, and for the
same half of 1864 to £970,578, showing an increase
of £74,793. The gross expenditure amounted to
£513,854, against £478,345 in the corresponding
half of 1864, showing an increase of £35,509. The
total net revenue amounted to £552,037, against
£506,158, showing an increase of £45,879. After
deducting from net revenue the fixed charges, in-
cluding interest, and preference dividends amount-
ing to £254,347, there remained £297,690 for ordi-
nary dividend, yielding on the Great Northern
original stock a dividend at the rate of £8 15s. per
cent. per annum, or £4 7s. 6d. per cent. for the
half-year, on the B stock £3 per cent. for the half-
year, and on the A stock £5 15s per cent. for the
half-year, leaving a balance of £323. The increase
in the coaching traffic was £27,725, in the goods
traffic £27,517, and in the minerals £21,792. The
relaying of the line with heavier rails and chains
and more numerous sleepers was being carried
on. A bill had been deposited for vesting the Great
Northern loop line in the Great Northern and Great
Eastern Companies jointly and equally, and for
powers to construct a new line to shorten the com-
munication between Spalding and Lincoln; the
length would be nearly 29 miles, and the capital
£360,000, to be provided equally between the two
companies. A bill had been deposited to give effect
to the agreement entered into last year between the
Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, and West Riding and Grimsby Companies,
for the transfer of the West Riding undertaking to
the two former companies; the portion of the West
Riding Company's line between Doncaster and
Wakefield was opened on the Ist instant ; also a
bill to vest the Liverpool Central Station Railway
and the new line from Manchester to Liverpool in
the Great Northern, Midland, and Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies on equal
terms in all respects. The report of Mr. Sturrock,
the locomotive engineer, stated that 4,123,837 train
miles had been run during the half year at a cost of
£205,199, or 11.911 per mile against 3,805,685
miles at an expense of £182,647, or 11.51 d. per mile
in 1864, or an excess train mileage of 318,152 miles
had been worked at a charge of £22,552.