The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
ABERDEEN RAILWAY.

This undertaking, fully sanctioned by the eminent
engineer, Mr. Cubitt, and by the names of the most
influential nobility and gentry residing in and offi-
cially connected with the district, is now again before
the public. At a meeting of the landholders and
turnpike trustees of the county of Aberdeen (con-
taining about 200,000 inhabitants), Mr. Cubitt's line
was, by a unanimous resolution, approved of. The
Aberdeen Railway leads directly through populous
towns and districts to Edinburgh and Glasgow, the
two largest and most important towns in Scotland
from which new lines of railway are in progress, both
in the east and west of England. The distance from
Aberdeen to London will be performed in one day, or
less than twenty-four hours!
We have seen a statement of the population of the
district, from which it is evident that the Aberdeen
Railway has the elements of a good traffic, and when
the railway from Inverness joins it at the nothern
terminus, the trade must be very much increased.
We have no fear of the Sotch railways; the manage-
ment and expense are on a much more economical
footing than in the southern parts of the kingdom,
and we understand this line not only to be unopposed,
but capable of being executed at a less cost than
usual:. -•-• • '
• The.: following is' an-, extract from Mr. Cubitt's
report:— - •-n
" After a- careful ,consideration of the whole sub:
,jest, and a-comparison of the several lines and sections,
together with all the circumstances and projects, pre-
sent and prospective, the result of my investigation is
—to recouimend for adoption a line of railway from
Aberdeen, passing very near Montrose and lirechin
to Friockheim and Guthrie, points about half way in
the Arbroath and Forfar Railway ; the description
and particulars of which, as to its course, lengths,
gradients, curves, &c., will be found in the form of an
appendix at the end hereof.
" The objects that will be obtained by the adoption
of this line are—

" I. A communication with the south by the
shortest length of new railway to be made ; and,
" 2. The least interference with existing railway
interests, the Arbroath and Forfar and Dundee and
Arbroath Companies having, as I understand, under-
taken to alter the guage of their lines to the usual 4
feet Si inch guage, in order to suit and work with the
intended guage of the Aberdeen line and that of the
great leading lines to the south.
" The distance by this new line from Aberdeen to
the Arbroath and Forfar lines will be 50f miles, and
from the points of junction to these places will be
about seven miles to each respectively, or 57f miles
from Aberdeen to either, being as regards Forfar only
!, mile, or thereabouts, farther than by a direct line
from Aberdeen to Forfar, via Brechin, a difference far
more than compensated for, in my judgment, by a
near approach to the port and town of Montrose, and
a saving of 5} miles, of a more expensive main line of
new railway, besides a difference of 4 miles' saving in
the construction of branch lines to form a communi-
cation between Montrose and Brechin.

" Under all the circumstances of the case, therefore,
I have no hesitation in recommending the adoption of
the line above stated as being that ' best calculated to
secure to the Company the benefit of the most favour-
able communication with the south.'
" Statement of the population of some of the prin-
cipal towns of Scotland which will be connected upon ,
the formation of the Aberdeen Railway :—Aberdeen,
75,013—S tonehaven, s,279—Montrose, 15,094
Ereehin, 7,soo—Forfar, 9,6l7—Arbroath, 17,489
Dundee, 65,087—Perth, 19,225—Kirkaldy, 5,261
Stirling, B,3ol—Edinburgh, 165,270—Glasgow,
28.1,490._ Total, 675,686."