The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-23 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT
OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON SCHEMES
FOR EXTENDING RAILWAY COMMUNICA-
TION IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS.
Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, April 16, 1845.
The Board constituted by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade for the transaction of Rail-
way Business, having had under consideration the fol-
lowing schemes for extending railway communication;

viz :-

The Aberdare Railway;
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Neymer Branch);
Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton;
Dunstable, London, and Birmingham;
Eastern Counties—Cambridge and Huntingdon;
Eastern Counties—Brandon and Peterborough Ex

tension;
Eastern Counties—Finsbury Extension;
Eastern Counties—Cambridge and Bury St. Ed-
mund's Extension;
Eastern Counties—Dartford aad Rumford Railway
and Steam Ferry;
Erewash Valley Railway;
Epping Railway;
Eastern Counties Thames Junction and North
Woolwich;
Lynn and Ely Railway, with a branch to Wisbeach ;
London and Gravesend vid North Woolwich
Railway;
Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool
Junction—Extension and Branches;
Kentish Coast Railway;
Launceston and South Devon;
South Devon Amendment and Tavistock Branch
Railway;

Darfield to Worsbrough;
Ditto to Elsecar;
Midland Railway Chevet to Horbury;
Oakenshaw to Wakefield;
Ambergate to Crich;
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway—
Tynemouth Extension and New Quay Branch;
North Union Railway—Branch to River Ribble;
Sheffield and Rotherham—Branch to Sheffield and
Manchester Railway;
West London Railway—Thames Extension ;
West London Railway—Knightsbridge Extension;
York and Scarborough Deviation;
have determined to submit the following report thereon,
for the consideration of Parliament.

The railway projects above enumerated are not so
connected with any particular district as to make it
necessary to class them with any of the groups or fami-
lies of schemes which have come under examination.

They consist generally of lines either small in them
selves, or of a local character, or they are minor exten
sions and alterations of railways already executed.
THE ABERDARE RAILWAY,

About eight miles in length, is principally intended for
the conveyance of coal, iron, and other minerals, from
the Valley of Aberdare, in the county of Glamorgan, to
the port of Cardiff, for shipment. It branches from the
Taff Valley Railway, which conntcts Merthyr Tydvil
with that port. The present means of communication
with Cardiff is by canal, which, however, is alleged to
be quite inadequate to convey the traffic. We are of
opinion that there are no public reasons against this pro-
ject receiving the sanction of Parliament.
THE BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS—
KEYMER BRANCH.
This is a branch from the Brighton, Lewes, and Hast-
ings Railway, at Lewes, to the London and Brighton
Railway near Keymer, in length 9 miles and 12 chains.
Its object is to cut off the angle at Brighton arid shorten
the railway distance between Lewes and London, and
consequently between Hastings and London, by eight or
nine miles. There are, in our opinion, no public rea-
sons against this project receiving the sanction of Par-
liament.
THE COVENTRY, BEDWORTH, AND NUN-
EATON RAILWAY.
This proposed line commences near the Coventry sta-
tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, and ter-
minates by forming a junction with the proposed Trent
Valley scheme near Nuneaton, in the parish of Bedworth,
its length being six miles fifty-three chains. It has
.for
its object to open direct communication between the
im-
portant districts of Coventry, Leamington, and Warwick,
and the extensive collieries in Warwickshire and Lieces -
tershire.
The statement of traffic furnished by the prcmoters of
the scheme appears to justify the. probable cost of its
construction. We are of opinion that there are no
public reasons against this project receiving the sanction
of Parliament.
THE DUNSTABLE, LONDON, AND BIRMING-
HAM RAILWAY.

This railway is intended to commence at the Leighton
Buzzard station of the London and Birmingham Rail-
way, and to terminate at the entrance to the town of
Dunstable ; the length of the line being seven miles.
The line, when completed, is proposed to be leased and
worked by the London and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany. The traffic tables laid before this Board by the
projectors appear to justify the outlay of the capital ne-
cessary for the construction of the line. We are of
opinion that no public reasons exist against this pro
ject receiving the sanction of Parliament.
EASTERN COUNTIES—CANIBRIDGE AND HUN-
,

TINGDON.
This line is intended to commence at Huntingdon and
to pass through St. Ives, to join the Eastern Counties
Extension a little to the north of Chesterton, near Cam-
bridge. Its length is 17 miles 35 chains, and it has a
branch of 1 miles 50 chains, for the accommodation of
Godmanchester. The object of this scheme is to con-
nect the town of Huntingdon and Godmanchester with
the Eastern Counties Railway, in case any of the great
trunk schemes between York and London passing in
that direction should not receive the sanction of the
Legislature. We have, however, already reported to
Parliament on the main question, and believe this scheme
to be incompatible with the establishment of a dire/
main line, such as we have recommended in the repoiii
alluded to. Between Cambridge and St. Ives it