The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-14 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.

We hear this line will be further opened to within a quarter
of a mile of Shoreditch, and on the other side to Brentwood,
in March next, if the weather continues favourable. This
will make about 18 miles opened.

ELANELLY RAILWAY.
The next 20 miles of this line will be opened about the 17th
instant. There only remains about 500 yards of ballasting
to finish. This will complete the line.

NORTHERN RAILWAY.
The commissioners appointed to report upon the most eli-
gible line of railway into Scotland, visit these parts some
time this month. It appears that a grant of shore has been
obtained from the crown for the Morecambe Bay Railway.
'—Lancaster Gazette.

The judicial proceedings now going forward at Monmouth
add .another to the many previously existing proofs of news-
paper enterprise and railway facilities. Those who have seen
the daily journals during this week and the last, will have
noticed the ample details therein supplied of the trials of
Frost and his traitorous accomplices. In the case of the
Morning Post, Chronicle, Herald, and Advertiser, these de-
tails have in general embraced everything that has transpired
down to the close of the proceedings on the previous after-
noon at six o'clock, at a distance of 128 miles, and yet the
papers have been published (frequently with twelve columns
of this matter) at six o'clock in the morning. Of course
these proceedings are forwarded by a well-arranged express,
and our object in adverting to the circumstance is to note
how eagerly the facilities afforded by railways are sought
after. On arriving at Twyford, the temporary terminus of
the Great Western line, the express is transferred to a spe-
cial train, (or rather engine,) which accomplishes the distance
of 31 miles in the short space of from 35 to 45 minutes, (in
one instance in 304 minutes,) the sum of XlO being paid to
the Railway Company for each trip. The Morning Post, in
noting the rate of speed, expresses its " sense of obligation
to the zeal, attention, and skill of the officers of the Rail-
way Company, of which it affords so striking a proof." The
Times express is forwarded by a somewhat different route,
passing, we are told, along the Aylesbury and London and
Birmingham lines, by a special train—of course at very con-
siderable expense.

GLASGOW AND AYR RAILWAY.
The traffic on the part (104 miles) opened of this line, has
been gradually decreasing during the autumnal months, as
dias to be expected. In a short time, probably a month, a
further portion, to Kilwinning, will be opened, when the
traffic will in all probability be doubled, without, it is said,
" any increase of expense whatever." We understand the
three classes adopted by the company suit the pockets of all
parties admirably—the passengers for economy, and the com-
pany in the returns; but on the third class the duty presses
heavily. It rarely happens that lines partially opened pay
their expenses; the Glasgow and Ayr has, however, done
more, and, we understand, has returned a profit.
The following is the traffic for the last five.months, Sun
days excluded
August 4 to 31 .
September...
October ..
November
December

18,4621
9,723
7,329
6,7521
5,963

• Total, five months.. 48,2291
The great misfortune of this railway is, that it does not run
on Sundays. We may judge of the loss sustained by this,
from the fact that the Sunday traffic on the Greenwich and
Croydon lines is 25 per cent. of the gross week's; conse-
quently the loss to the Glasgow and Ayr is at.least 33 per
cent. on their present traffic.—RailWAy Magazine.

Colonel Cunningham and his colleagues having returned
from a personal inspection of the proposed routes and ter-
minal harbours on the Welsh coast, in reference to an Anglo-
Hibernian railway, are now in the north, performing the
same duty with respect to the projected lines into Scotland.
—Railway Times.

WEEKLY RETURNS OF RA
(From the Railway M

I LWAY TRAFFIC,
ragazine)

NAME. Passen- Cash. P' mile'P.mile Passeng
gers. pr.wk.ip. day. per day
• X. X. X.
Birmingham ..
South Western — 20974 36 5
Great Western -
Greenwich..
Manchester& Leeds 10776 599 444 64 1539 -
Birming. &Derby — 695 18 21
York &N. Midland 1847 3014. 204 3 264
Croydon 97 4061 381 54 9991
Midland Counties 2 74 260 161 394
Eastern Counties
Glasgow & Ayr.... 266 83 114 12 517
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