The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

—Traffic returns

£553 6

70 12 f

RAILWAT TO MACCLESFIELD.—xu.
Manchester CoMpany have determined to confplet
branch without loss of time, and there is reason tr
that it will be open simultaneously v.
Crewe. When the Bramhall contrac,
Mac, lesfield contract (31 miles) are taken, the whole of the
company's contracts will be completed. The distance fror
Macclesfield to Manchester by the railway will be reduced
about 164 miles.—Stockport Advertiser.
NEW BRANCH RAILWAV.S.--Tile fast increasing to
Heywood, near Bury, is about to derive considerable
tt-ps in the way of traffic with the neighbouring
constructing a branch railway from the blanches
Leeds railway, at Blue. Pits to Harland-road, Hey
distance of about two miles, the cutting has already
and in a few months the population of Heywood, ar
to upwards of fifteen thousand, will be fully posses
advantages of locomotive transit. The branch
Oldham, which the Manchester and Leeds railwe
are empowered to form by-an act of parliament
Ist, 1839, will shortly be in course of execution
junction with the main railway at Hillock, Chadderton, to i
present intended termination near Lower Manchester-street
Oldham, a distance of a mile and a half, the estates are no,
undergoing a valuation preparatory to being purchased '
the directors.
From the last half-yearly report of the directors of
Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway, it seems evident that
have it in contemplation to execute forthwith the,
railway between Kilmarnock and the main line.
general opinion prevails that the engineers, if their its As
were
once free of the
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Advertises..
OPENING OF THE COVE-HILL RAILWAY- CH OLY
ACCIDENT.—A considerable number of persons aa. bled on
Tuesday to witness the opening of this railway, when, we
regret to say, an accident occurred, in consequence of the
end of one of the waggons having given way, and consequently
they, with eight men upon them, set off at a fearful rate
down the inclined plane and along the line for a considerable
distance, when they ran off the rails, and precipitated the
men with fearful force od the road. Ott inquiry at the In-
firmary, it appears that one man received a concussion of
the brain, and another has had his leg broken: at;"
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the projected lines of ►ailway into Scotland, arrived in this
town on Saturday, and on Monday proceeded along the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway to Hexham, and thence
along the projected Midland Line by Hawick and Galashiuls
to Edinburgh, which city he reached on Wednesday. It is
understood that the commissioners would return by the East
Coast Lin; and are expected in Newcastle on Wednesday in
next week. They have received the evidence of the various
parties in support of the projected lines, and by a personal
survey made themselves perfectly acquainted with the dis-
trict; but, of course, no opinion can have yet been given.
The town councils of Perth, Dundee, and Aberdeen have
memorialised the treasury, praying that the commissioners
may be autho►ised to survey the country on the north side of
the Forth, and to report on the best line for connecting the
principal and commercial and manufacturing towns in the
north of Scotland with Edinburgh and Glass(
stilt of this application has not ►ranepirvd

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