The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

RAILWA Y INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDE4
PENDENT RAILWAY with a BRANCH THROUG.,
THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES TO CREWfr

(Remington's Line).
Amongst the numerous, we might almost say innmoTi
rable projects of lines with which the public jowls,
and the public mind are filled to very repletion, yr;
have no hesitation in at once pointing to the ab°l
as the most simple in its proposed operation, the most inse
tant in its probable result. There are many reasons for thil
which cannot fail, as we think, to strike all who calmly a
fairly consider the subject. In the first place, it is a line,
its heading clearly states, both " Direct and Independeo,t'
running almost as the crow flies, from the commercial capll
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to the court capital of this vast empire; an easy, economic
certain, and speedy communication, both for man and the pro'
duce of man's labour, from the manufacturing to the rnetrop7
litan head quarters. In the second, it is a scheme which wiI1,1;
and when, eventually carried in its purity and its integrity, be,.
knock down blow to the long nourished notion of Birmingba'"
and Great Western infallibility, and although we are anythig
hut ill-wishers to the prosperity of either of those under.
takings, yet it is our firm opinion that this latter onsideratil
is, or should be, in itself quite sufficient to make the Pob44
qua public hail the proposed line with equal satisfaction se
sincerity.
There are many and peculiar matters connected with t,ber
history of this scheme which present it, apart from weigh,.,9l
considerations, as one of considerable interest to the ail" 11,
world—but into these it is not our intention in the present atti c
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to enter. There is also, or to speak more correctly, there ,
be, a rival line, but until that rival line shall be in a sufficienti
matured state to speak to some extent for itself, we think
would be as useless as unbecoming in us to enter into su:
question of the real or supposed relative merits of the two Pr_:,
Jects, and we shall therefore, for the present, content ours el,
with a brief and succinct account of " Remington's kiPe4,
not as it was last year, or as it might have been, or eugutdir,
have been at any time, but simply and straightforwal '
as it is.
Its main object, then, is, as we have already stated, to ale
to the commercial, manufacturing, and trading world, see ,
the public in general, the shorte,t and most economical railesi
route possible between the two most important termini in El;
land. With this chief and grand view in the outset, !„,
" Direct London and Manchester " will take for its startD7
place, at the former locale, King's-cross, one of the most coed
venient and most centrically situated spots on the north %Well
the metropolis. From this it will pass round Muswellti;
and then will take a line passing through or near Fr' cm
Barnet, Chipping Barnet, St. Alban's, Luton, Sfrskit
Ampthill, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, itr,„%,
Harborough, Leicester, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton, 1)1'4
eter, Cheadle, Leak, Macclesfield, and Stockport, to Manche'rld
The length of the entire line, as above laid down, is stated
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its engineer to be under 177 miles • and when we come to e_7,l
sider the unequalled importance Of the termini, and the
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consequence of the different districts through which it is utbs
tined to pass—when we consider, also, to what an extent et
country between London and Manchester is at this 110301
intersected by existing,or projected lines, we really think up
Mr. Remington has exhibited no small portion of ingeseo
to give it no higher name, in thus contriving to get 177
of really independent railroad. ett
Besides the places already enumerated, as either on ore, d
the proposed line, there are to be added those actual line'soi
industry and activity, Bury, Bolton, Ashton-under-Line, lei
Oldham, cum militia aliis—all of which must be more or
benefited by it.
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Again, it may be remarked, that the thicicly-popplat
tricts between the metropolis and St. Alban's, together .0
the important town of Bedford itself, arid the entire eoe'sd•
north of it to Leicester, are at present utterly without tbeoll
vantage of railway communication with each other or 40
London. Looking a little, also, into futurity, es ~014
matters we always should do, we cannot but foresee the,7t het
than likelihood of this trunk becoming eventually the "I_lol
of a line" of railway communication between the Englis"
Scotch capitals, and even between London and
the entire north and north-east of Scotland.
this etc.je.el

Within a short time—indeed a very short time - "Os
has sprung from inactivity and depression into vigour noool
fairest promise. It is not many weeks since one was I coo
laughed at if, while lamenting its actual state of torpiditPito
were bold enough even to hint at its possible resuscitation 'tot
an untimely grave. An honest expression of one's Wee to
what, it must be confessed, looked like death, would turn
be only a trance, was rewarded by at the least a most con!evece,
tuous smile. Now mark the change ; a great deal of le pro'and no small portion of perseverance, on the part of i's:stia
jecters, is already repaid by the mist unmistakeable signs
symptoms of their scheme's well-being and well-d0ing.,..01, As
There is yet one important feature of this line w“itioef,
must by no means overlook—and this for two consider+, ell!
The one its own intrinsic value ; the other its relative '4510
regards Liverpool. The branch to the Pottei ies Which pot
lately been proposed, and received with such enthusioni or
only by those principally concerned, but by the public rt„o
rally, will give to the entire of that populous and (if wenrise4
be al owed the expression) paying district which is COsoil'
between Uttoxeter and Crewe, the most ready way and
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able means of communication thence to London, wriloyer'
same branch line will most unquestionably offer to
pool the nearest railway communication from London•
By the time our next number shall appear we shall doni.teos
be in a position to go more fully and minutely into the e
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of this line. In the meantime, we think we have $°
enough to show any one of even common observation ,et
direct and contingent—for positive and probable advsn`ee
both to public and proprietor— few lines that have ever v-th.
projected have been so rich in premises and promiseraitl:4
too, equally well-founded and well-g
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