The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE

The Maryport and Carlisle Railway is now open.
The differences between the Great Western and South
Westrn Companies have been amicably settled.
At a meeting of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Com-
pany, on Friday, it was resolved to purchase the River
Ure Canal Navigation, at £34,577.
The Board of Trade have reported in favour of the Char-
net Valley Railway scheme (from Macclesfield to Tam-
worth and Derby, with a branch to the Potteries).
The Stockton and Darlington Company have con-
tracted to find locomotive power for the transport of coal
and coke on the Great North of England line at the low
rate of id. per ton per mile.
The shareholders of the Bristol and Gloucester railway
held a meeting, on Thursday last, at Bristol, where reso-
lutions were passed confirming the amalgamation of the
line with the Birmingham and Gloucester.
At a meeting of influential parties, held on Monday last,
at Doncaster, it was resolved to!support the London and
York line against the Midland Counties extension; and
a deputation was appointed to communicate the resolution
to the Board of Trade.

DUMFRIES AND CARLISLE LINE.—The members of
the Trades'-house of Glasgow have resolved to memorial-
ize the Board of Trade, and to petition both Houses of
Parliament, in favour of this railway, and against the
Clydesdale Junction Railway.
At a meeting of the Birmingham and Gloucester Rail-
way Company, at Birmingham, on Wednesday last, reso-
lutions in favour of an amalgamation with the Bristol and
Gloucester Company, and other measures, were carried
unanimously.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Friday week a
porter at the Wellington station of the Bristol and Exeter
railway, was crushed to death between two trucks, as the
train was returning to take them up.—On Thursday last
a guard on the Great Western Railway, was killed by
being jambed between a truck and a goods train as he
stood to adjust the chain.
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—It appears
from the traffic returns of this railway, that the returns of
this year so far, exhibit a considerable improvement over
that of the corresponding period of 1844. It is satisfac-
tory to notice also that the shares of the company are
progressively advancing in the market, the last quotation
being £l2O 10s. per share. The effect of all this has been
to enable the company to relieve themselves entirely of
their debts to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners,
they have paid last year the balance of their £60,000 loan,
which then amounted to £36,000 ; and, on Wednesday
last, they discharged the balance of their £lOO,OOO loan,
amounting to £58,1100, together with the interest thereon.

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL RAILWAYS.—Great
Britain counts at present 1,984 miles of railway at work,
and nearly 1,240 in course of construction. Germany
possesses 1,320 miles decreed and in progress. Belgium
has finished 152 miles of railway, and is now making 86
more. Taken in reference to the population of each
country, the lengths of railway, finished or in progress,
give-1n England, 11-78 miles to 100 inhabitants; in
Belgium, 10-74 miles to 100 inhabitants; in Germany,
9-16 miles to 100 inhabitants : in France, 9-50 miles to
100 inhabitants.—France, therefore, holds the last rank,
and, of all the great nations of the continent, makes indi-
vidually the least exertion in favour of railways.