The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

We understand that active measures arc now in progress
for bringing before the public the projected railway from
Bradford to Leeds. The line would be a great public con-
venience. •

It is said that the opening of the London and South-
Western line throughout its entire length will take place on
the II th of the ensuing month, the same day as the partial
opening of the North Midland line. It is intended, we
believe, that.seven trains shall run each way daily.
Monday, the 11th May, promises to be a dies notanda in
railway history. In addition to the partial opening through-
out the London and South-Western, the Shoreham branch
of the London and Brighton line will, it is understood, be
publickly used for the first time on the day mentioned. Some
private trips have already been xr.ade.—Railway Times. .
We have to congratulate our readers upon the favourable
decision that has been made by the Military and Naval Com-
missioners appointed by government to decide upon the
merits of the English line of communication with Dublin.
They have sent in their report, and have decided that the
line through Chester and Bangor is the most eligible, and
that Holyhead is the best part as a terminus, and the most
desirable point of communication between this country and
Ireland. A new field for enterprise will thus he opened, and
it may be confidently expected that the golden dreams in-
dulged in by many will ultimately be realised. The Chester
and Holyhead line, when established, will be second to none
in point of profit and traffic in the kingdom.—Ghester
Gazette.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the
key stone of the last arch of the new oblique l•ridge across
the river Tees, at Croft, on the line of this railway, was
placed in its .proper bed by G. H. Wilkinson, Esq., the
Chairman of the Directors, in the presence of several of the
other directors, and a large concourse of spectators, amongst
whom were many of the fair sex. The foundation stone of
of the bridge was laid by Mrs. Wilkinson, the lady of the
chairman, in the month of May, 1838, and the bridge is now
rapidly approaching its completion. After the stone had
been placed, and 3 times 3 cheers given for the success of the
great undertaking, of which the chairman very appropriately
remarked this bridge formed one of the most important fea-
tures, Henry Welch, Esq., the engineer of the bridge, in-
vited the directors to partake of a splendid dejeriner at the
Spa Hotel, where success to the undertaking was again
'drunk, and all present expressed their entire approbation of
the beautiful structure, now so nearly completed. The bridge
consists of four oblique arches, built at an angle of 50 deg.,
each arch measuring 60 feet on the oblique face, which is, we
believe, by far the largest structure of the kind that has been
built at so acute an angle. Amongst the party present we
observed from Newcastle, Peter Nicholson, Esq., so justly
celebrated for his many scientific works ; and obert Ni-
cholson, Esq., the engineer of the Newcastle and North
Shields Railway, both of whom expressed their approbation
of the excellent workmanship of the bridge.—Durham
Advertiser,April 17.

SOUTH-EASTERN AND DOVER RAILWAY.—A report has
been industriously circulated by a contemporary that a great
number of men have been discharged from the tunnel works
of this railway in our neighbourhood, which is calculated to
create a suspicion that the company is in difficulties. We
are happy, however, in being enabled to find, on the most mi-
nute enquiry, that such a presumption is entirely devoid of
foundation. it is true that a few bricklayers have been dis-
charged owing to a limited supply of bricks on the part
of the contractor ; but at the same time nearly two hun-
dred additional men have been since set on at the contracts
extending from Abbot's Cliff to Folkestone. On a personal
inspection, we find the work in a most promising condition.
The Shakspeare tunnel will, we doubt not, be completed by
the end of May. A large portion of the sea wall is nearly
finished, and the Warren contracts are proceeding as well as
the nature of the ground will permit. We have seen the. mo-
del of the bridge now constructing at Folkestone, and it will
be, in our opinion, when finished, a substantial and elegant
erection. The effect of the paragraph to which we refer.
above, may be inferred from the fact that it hail scarcely seen
the light when the public contidence in the ultimate success
of the South-eastern was manifested by a rise in the shares
of that undertaking of nearly £1 10s. Report attributes the
splenetic production in question, and we believe truly, to the
unwelcome fact that the government surveyors have found it
to.be their duty to recommend that a harbour of refuge should
be formed at Dover.—Dover Chronicle.

WEEKLY RETURN OF

TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS
!way Magazine.)

(From the Rai

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Passau" I Casli.lP.mile P.mile Pa near NAME. gers. pr.wk.4). day. per day.
X. X. • X.
•
Birmingham .. — - 14033 124;1 18
South Western 3070 53 71
Great Western — 4108 1231 171
Neweast. & Carlisle -- 1576 26-1 4
Birmg. & Derby 923 24 31,
Greenwich 89604 3171 829 1181 12801
Manche ;ter ::Leeds 13262 l 814 621 9 1894
Croydon 17572 957 91 13 2510
York &N. Midland 2217 349 24 3-1 317
Midland Counties 4479 383 24 31 640
Glasgow & Ayr 2480 413
Eastern Counties, 8124 405 38i ' 5,1 1161