The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAILWAY.
This work daily becomes more interesting from the
zealous struggle making to regain the time lost during the
last wet season. The directors frequently inspect the works
with the engineer, and are using every effort to open the line
as early as possible. We find that although so much is
finished there are a greater number of men employed than
ever, all the heavy points having double gangs, and the pick,
hammer, and shovel are never idle throughout the twenty-
four hours. Man can do much, but steam does more ; and
even here we have to honour the memory of our townsman,
James Watt. The three thousand men employed are not
equal in " moving power" to the locomotive and fixed en-
gines, toiling day and night also. The night scene is curious.
The rattling of the locomotive through the rocky pass at
West Ferry, and the large fires blazing in every direction,
and reflecting in their ruddy light the various groups of
workmen, form a spectacle highly picturesque and gratifying
to the lover of strange sights.
The range of arches across the beach. at Port-Glasgow
grow rapidly under the hands of their spirited contractor,
Mr. Mackenzie—who, if we mistake not, is turning an arch
a-week at this place. Carnegie Hill is alive with men.
Bishopton is one continued cannonade from the blasting of
the rock, with constant booming shots from the tunnels, and
Barrangry Hill is already nearly cut through. So rapid in-
deed, of late, has been the progress, that there seems little
to complete, except at the points we have mentioned, and
we hear that everywhere they are striving hard to have all
through by the month of July next. We sincerely wish them
a speedy and prosperous opening.—Greenock Advertiser,
May 26.

BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—A splendid
first and second class carriage arrived at the Gloucester and
Birmingham Railway depot near Lansdowne, on Thursday
last, and on Saturday they were attached to a locomotive
engine, and proceeded to Tewkesbury, by way of experiment.
We understand the railroad to Bromsgrove will not be com-
pleted and opened by the 15th of June, as stated by some of
our contemporaries—Cheltenham Examiner.

A railroad is contemplated between Berlin, Magdeburg,
and Hamburg ; and Mr. William Lindley, of London, has
been appointed by the King of Hanover to make the surveys
of such parts of it as are to be within his doininions.—Globe.

`We present to-day the returns of traffic upon the North
Midland Railway during the first two weeks since the partial
opening of the hue. We .have heard considerable surprise
expressed in various quarters that the amount of business
has hitherto been so trifling as compared with that upon
some other lines, and inferences have been drawn from this
fact to the prejudice of the . undertaking. Now, nothing
could be more erroneous than to take the present traffic as a
fair criterion of what will pass over the line when it is com-
pleted. The able chairman of the company, Mr. Glyn, took
occasion at. the half-yearly meeting, in March, specially to
guard the proprietors against disappointment on this score,
observing that it was not to be expected that the traffic which
has heretofore passed by the Grand Junction line would be
diverted to the North Midland for the sake of the partial
opening.
In a little more than a month hence the line will be opened
throughout the entire distance, when there can be no doubt
the North Midland Railway will prove itself, as regards its
traffic (as it has already been admitted to be in respect of its
execution), second to few undertakings of the kind in the
kingdom.—Railway Times.

MIDLAND COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—Amongst the many
advantages which this line will afford to Leicester and it vi-
cintity, there is a prospect of a supply of useful coal from
Derbyshire at low prices. By the courtesy of the secretary
of the railway, we have received a specimen of the supply
brought by the first train of coals that has traversed the rail-
way, and can testify as to the quality being such as to ren-
der it useful for household and other purposes. The specimen
we have received is from the colliery of Messrs. George Ste-
phenson and Co. at Clay Cross, near Chesterfield, and we
understand that it can be sold in Leicester at lls a ton. It
is now selling i❑ Derby at 8s Gd, and the railway carriage
from there is estimated not to exceed 2s Gd. On •Thursday
the directors placed the third-class carriages on the Leices-
ter and Nottingham line, by which passengers are conveyed
the whole distance for 2s, and shorter stages in proportion.
We are glad to find that the business on this railway is stea-
dily and satisfactorily increasing ; and we look forward with
anxious anticipation to the opening of the whole line to Rug-
by in the month of June.—Leicester Journal.

WEEKLY RETURN OF TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS
(From the Railway Magazine.)