The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP X.
LONDON AND YORIC LINZ.
'Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)

All the clauses were then disposed of, except that referring to
the Withara Navigation, which was postponed till Monday, and the
Committee adjourned at three o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
SATURDAY, JULY 26.

NOTICE GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway,— Lords' amend-
meats to be considered, Tuesday, July 29.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Lords' amendments
to be considered, Tuesday, July 29.
Eastern Counties (Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund's Ex-
teasion) Railway,—Report, Tuesday, July 29.

CHEAP RAILWAY TRIPS-PLEA-

SURE TRAINS.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
During the present fine summer weather the cheap
trains for pleasure trips on the various railways having
termini in Manchester have greatly increased, and we
are glad to find that the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-
way Company, the last in the field, have already begun
to discover how much may be gained by concessions to
the grocing spirit of the times. The junction of the
Leeds and Liverpool lines has enabled tho good folk • of
Yorkshire to enjoy many a delightful pleasure trip to
Manchester and Liverpool. One or two recent instances
way be noted.
On Saturday last there were cheap trains from Hali-
fax, via Mai chester, to Liverpool, and back to Halifax
the same evening. The trains consisted of all three
classes of carriages, and the fares, we believe, were re-
spectively 7s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 3s. 6d., from Halifax to

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Liverpool and back. There were upwards of 900 passen-
gers by these trains, which started at an early hour in
the morning, and returned in the evening, giving the
Yorkshire people several hours to see the Great Britain,
and the other lions of Liverpool.
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On Monday there were similar cheap trains, at the
tame rate of fares, from Elland to Liverpool and back.
There were two trains, which conveyed, in thirty-seven
carriages, no fewer than 1,300 persons frem E; hind and
the neighbourhood to Liverpool, returning to Elland ihe
same evening. The distance fr.rn Ellaud to Liverpool
is about 62 miles, so that for 3s. 6d. many hundreds en-
joyed a railway trip of 124 miles, besides the sight-
seeing in Liverpool, sailing on the river, &c.
On Saturday and Sunday the usual cheap trains
from Manchester to Liverpool and back were more
crowded than usual. On Saturday between 2,000 and
3,000 persons went by these trains—the fare in the open
waggons with seats being two shillings and sixpence to
Edgehill (Liverpool) and back ; and on Sunday there
were no fewer than 4,081 persons left Manchester for
Liverpool, to return by the cheap trains of Sunday even-
ing or Monday morning. It is said that on a mo-
derate computation there could not be fewer than 7,000
strangers in Liverpool during Saturday and Sunday last,
all brought by the cheap trains. The Liverpool Titnes
states that :—" On Sunday, cheap trains brought hither
from Manchester about 7,000 persons, who perambu-
lated the town in crowds, and took excursions to
Cheshire, the Rocklight, the floating-light, &c. The
extreme beauty of the day also brought out an immense
number of the inhabitants of the town in search of fresh
air, and the consequence was, that the steamers on the
river were from morning to night crowded to excess."
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway having
only at present the large towns of Manchester and
Stockport upon the line, does not offer such varied at-
tractions to large populous communities; but we believe
that during Sunday no fewer than 2,000 persons visited
Alderley Edge from Manchester and Stockport.
On Monday two cheap trains arrived at Liverpool,
from Bristol, one having thirty-one carriages, and the
other eighteen. This is a striking instance of the
extension of these cheap trips, and we can well
understand the curiosity of the Bristolians to see a
port which has far surpassed their own in the race of
success and prosperity, though Bristol long held the
position of the second port in the United Kingdom. We
do not find any account of this arrival from the port of
the West of Englar:d in the Liverpool papers, and have
not heard the numbers, but forty-nine carriages would
contain more than 2,000 persons.
We have not heard of any cheap trips by the Sheffield
and Manchester Railway; but it must be remembered
that that line is not yet opened throughout, and that the

company have to engaga:coaches for—the distance of 31
miles. When the tunnel is completed, we shall doubt-
less have a visit from the Shevvield grinders, and our
Manchester artisans and others would find much to in-
erest them in the romantic scenery along the line and
in the town of Sheffield.

There have been some cheap trips to Fleetwood, &c•.;
but from some cause or other they do not obtain any very
large share of the public favour.
It is now clear that railway companies generally are
finding their account in the providing iLcreased facili-
ties cheap trips to the large mass of the people.
We rejoice in this extension of cheap travelling, as
a great moral agent. Those who go from home and see
new scenes of town and country, have an interest excited
in what lies beyond their daily view; their minds are
enlarged; they read of what they have seen ; they
icquire a relish for this new pleasure ; they become
sober and economical, that they may the oftener
enjoy this purer sour,* of excitement end recreation;
they become more domestic in their enjoyments, as new
scenes are doubly delightful in the e.inpany or those we
love ; while the dram-ship and beer house are sought
.hietly for selfish and exclusive gratification,few men,ho w-
ever besotted themselves, desiring to have the company of
their wives and children there. In all these various respects,
too, the cheap-trip enjoyment is promoting the improved
sanitary condition of its partakers ; for sobriety, more
food and of better quality, more and purer air, more
bracing exercise, and the more healthy tone of mind,
which result from the desire of this weekly enjoyment ;
influencing all the arrangements and expenditure of a
family, are the natural sanitary consequences of this
desirable change in the habits of the working classes in
such towns as Manchester.
Since the above was written, we see that on and after
Sunday next the fares to Liverpool (Edgehill) and
back, by the Sunday waggon trains, are to be raised
to 4s. each, while the fare by the trains leaving
Manchester on Saturday afternoons and returning
the same evening, or on Monday morning, is to
continue 2s. 6d. It is clear that the company's ob-
ject is to discourage Sunday travelling ; and, with
the view of providing for the pressure on the Saturday
and Monday trains, an additional waggon train is to be
dispatched from Manchester at seven on Saturday even-
ing, returning from Edgehill station, Liverpool, at seven
on Monday morning. Parties may therefore go to Li-
verpool by the cheap trains on Saturdays, at three
p.m. or seven p.m., and return on Mondays at seven a.m.
or nine a.m.