The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

THE NEW LINES.

Conntnictive operations on nearly all the new lines
granted last session have been commenced, and will be in
frill operation before the close of the year, affording to the
working population of the kingdom permanent supplies of
winter work. The East Lancashire, comprehending an im-
portant group of lines in the north, is about to commence
its works. extending from Colne to a junction with the
Leeds and Bradford. The works in Connexion with the
South-Eastern line at Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate,
and those on the line. from Brighton to Lewes and Hastings,
are in active progress. The South Devon works are drawing
to a close; and during the last fortnight the masonry com-
posing the sea-wall has had to undergo the severe test of a
tremendous storm from the south-west. The extension lines
in connexion with the Midlands are proceeding, and the
branches in connexion with the Binning-11am are being
laid out. The whistle of the locomotive will soon be heard
echoing over the lakes, whose population are now employed
on the Kendal and Windermere and Lancaster and Carli,le.
The Richmond branch of the Great North of England will
be commenced at the dose of the month. The construction
of eight miles of the Edinburgh and Northern is to be iri
the hands of the contractors by October. Five miles of the
permanent way and works of the Exeter and Crediton will
be in hand probably before the termination of October, to-
gether with 1,000 tons instalment of the necessary iron-
rails. Engineers and navigators have made their appear-
ance in seven or eight miles of the Manchester Southlunc-
tion and Altrincham, on which there is to be a viaduct of
1,000 yards. The Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, com-
mence operations with a continuous contract of 22 miles,
embracing a viaduct over Churwell Valley ; and the New-
castle and Berwick, one of Hudson's lines, proposing to
complete the international chain of railways between Eng-
land. and Scotland, in conjunction with the North riti,,l:i
takes a first stupendous step in itsconstruction
rurmpoilsees wholefro E
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bTowu ereerdsm. o uTt ,e retainingivan atll:de
a including, en route, a
miles to Ashton and Maeclesfiet
'nd Ballymena, Cork and
Birmingham begin their tributary branches of four or five
tunnel of 330 yards. The Belfast
ip employment for a large sectio3 el
rations, and will 9Pen IA
large portion of the hired labour 4
Bandon, Dundalk and Enniskillen, have also commenced 9^de-
-1:137 the South
6 line from the Great Western to Fishguard and
R will be called into requisition
Wale
the Irish populatin.
Pembroke, 182 miles; by the North Wales, from Porthdynn-
Mien to Bangor, 28 miles ; by the Aberdare line, near the
Taff tale, 8 miles; by the North Wales Mineral, to
miles; and by. the Monmouth and Hereford, 36 miles;
by which collectively between three and four million sterling
will be expended in the district. The Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth, one of the great arteries for travel through
the West of England, 129 miles in length, branching oftfront the Great Wrztern, with its termini at Salisbury
and Weymouth, will place upwards of one million
and a half at the disposal of the labour market of that
district, to which the Berks and Hants, also a Great
Western offshoot of 40 miles, will add 400,0001. more. The
East Anglian line, including the Eastern Counties exten-
sion* to Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Ely, 40 miles; the
Eastern Union and Bury, 26; the Ely and Huntingdon.
22; the Lowestoft, 11%; Lynn and Denham, 26 ; Lynn
and Ely, 37 ; will contribute their quota to the total oullay.
of upwards of two millions, and 162 miles of new
locomotion for those districts. The Great Grimsby. and Sher-
field have commenced expending, between Gainsboronwh
and Great Grimsby, 69 miles, 600,000/., and the Mid.
derslield and Manchester, 22 miles, and Huddersfield and
Sheffield, 15 miles, between their termini, 1,162,0001., the
outlay of the former being 630,0001., and of the latter
532,0001. Leeds is to have laid out on it and the dim,
tricts adjacent between two and three millions sterling, by
the construction of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester.
Leeds and Thirsk
20 miles ; Leeds and Bradford, 31 ;
44—giving a total new route by railway to that district of
nearly 100 miles. Liverpool is to be overlaid with a com-
plete lattice work of new lines, preparations for which havr
been commenced on the Liverpool and Bury, with exr-
ions to Bolton, Wigan, and elsewhere, •a length of 40 miles.
lan outlay o nearly two millions, Upwards of tlurty

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