The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

in Herefordshire) has been commenced.
The line of railway extending from Cockermouth to the
sea port town of Workington, was opened on Tuesday
last, for the conveyance of passengers and general traffic.
The line passes through a beautiful and fertile range of
country, watered by the river Derwent, and lovely valleys
and hilly slopes attract the eye on either side. It is eight
miles in length, and there are two regular stations upon
it, at Camerton and Brigham. •
RAILWAY RETURNS.—From official returns it appears
that the amount of traffic for tha last week, on upwards of
2,730 miles of railway, was £161,735, thus accounted for:
£84,223 for the conveyance of passengers only, £42,083
for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £35,432 for
passengers and goods together, not respectively appor-
tioned; being an increase of £22,748 over the correspond-
ing week of last year, when the mileage was about 1,990.
LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—
A number of men have, for the last three or four weeks,
been employed upon the portion of the above line which
runs through Rufford, raising the embankments. On
Monday they struck work, some for wages, and all finding
fault with the pay-days, which the sub-contractors wished
to be only once a month. Most" of them, however, were
induced to commence work again on Tuesday._ _

THE SOUTH EASTERN AND BRIGHTON MID-KENT
RAILWAY SCHEMES.—The Commitiee of the House of
Commons, appointed to try the merits of these schemes,
has concluded its labours. The chairman, Mr. W. 0.
Stanley, delivered the decision of the committee. It was
in favour of the South-Eastern North Kent Continuation
to Canterbury and the South-Eastern Mid-Kent Lines.
The committee rejected the proposed new Croydon line.
The Brighton lines are all rejected.
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--A
special train, consisting of live carriages, was 'taken from
London to Birmingham on Wednesday morning, in two
hours and thirty minutes. The actual time of travelling
did not exceed two hours, being an average speed of 56
miles per hour, the train being stopped four times on the
journey to allow other trains to get clear of the line, be-
sides stopping at Wolverton to change engines. The
engine which started from London (No. 157) is one of
Y.r..Stepltenson's ordinary patent engines, and the latter

part of its journey, 21 miles, was performed in2l minutes.
The maximum speed over upwards of a mile was 75 miles
per hour. The engine from Wolverton to Birmingham
was also a patent engine of Mr. Stephenson's, having
three cylinders, and it performed the first part of the
journey, 41 miles (until it was stopped by another train),
in 42 minutes ; maximum speed on this portion of the
journey, 64 miles per hour. We understand that Lord
George Bentinck, and several gentlemen going to the
Chester races, were in the train. A side-wind was blow-
ing throughout the journey. The motion at the highest
velocity was perfectly steady.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESHIRE RAILWAY.—The land,
on being made for this line, at Hencott, near Shrewsbury,
has fallen in, and forced up a flood of water, as though the
previous ground had rested on a floating bog, which sank
under the superincumbent earth ; the water becoming
deeper as more earth was thrown into it. It is said that it
will be necessary to wheel down a large elevation of neigh-
bouring land into the swamp, before a good substratum
can be secured.

On Sunday last, some experiments were made on the
Great Western Railway to test the power of the engines.
The Great Western has undergone alteration, and its per-
formance was highly satisfactory between Reading and

on, a speed at the rate of seventy miles an hCiir was
easily maintained. The "Iron Duke," a new eight-
wheeled engine, drew a special train weighing sixty tons
up the very steep Gloucester incline at the rate of thirty-
six miles an hour.

THE BROAD AND NARROW GUAGE.-011 Wednesday.
the Lord Chancellor decided in favour of the demurrer of
the dirortnra of thp ev L. 1 I,

Company to the bill filed by Mr. Mozley and three other
hareholders, with a view to eject the existing directors
vent the completion of the sale of the line to the

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_ estern Company. The Lord Chancellor has re-
:ersed the decision of the Vice-Chancellor. This has
been blazoned as a triumph of the Great Western Com-
pany. .It is, in fact, nothing of the kind. The Lord
Chancellor merely says, that the shareholders have not
gone the right way to bring the matter before the court,
and he expressly guards himself from being supposed to
give any opinion whatever upon the merits of the case.
On Thursday, in the Bail Court, before Mr. Justice Cole-
ridge, Mr. Cockburn moved, on behalf of certain share-
holders in the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Company,
for a rule against Mr. Muntz and other directors of that
,mpany, to show cause why a us should

mandatnuo no,
...
issue, directed to them, to elect by ballot, from their
number, four directors to retire from that office, and to
call a general meeting of the shareholders of the company,
for the purpose of electing four others to supply- th

places of those retiring fioin office,

A. rule nisi

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