The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

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RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The dividend of Bs. per share recommended in the re-
port of the Eastern Counties railway was carried at the
half-yearly meeting.

-
RAILWAY SPEED.—The express train of the Great
Western on Tuesday last ran the 22 miles from Dideot
to Swindon in eighteen minutes.

The dividend to be declared at the approaching meet-
ing of the North British Railway Company will be five
per cent.

- It is expected that the dividends of the York, New-
castle, and Berwick, and the York and North Midland
Railways, will be eight per cent. at the approaching
meetings.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending August 5, £lBO7 4s. Id., and for the week
ending August 12, £2235 55., (PostolEce for conveyance
of mails, and toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Railway
Company, not included.)
The report and accounts of the Great Northern were
adopted by the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting ;
arks to the directors on the

tter various pr

necessity of a more stringent economy in the conduct of
their affairs. Before October the line will probably be
opened to six miles beyond Lincoln

IAIESIIIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. —Baron Goldsmid
and Mr. Garnett have joined the Board of Directors, and
it is intended to resume forthwith the works for complet-
ing the line between Chester and Warrington. Arrange-
ments are also in progress for resuming the works at the
Birkenhead Docks.
At the South-Eastern rail

meeting, the dividend

was continued
and 15s. 9d. NW
the No

,are on the original shares,

lared on the No. 1,

d Ils. Bd. or

2 shares,

the available balance of profit and loss
The capital account, it was stated, will
ch, and the entire report

being £108,836
be closed with all possi.
was favourably received.

In the report to tl
Railway Company,

meeting of the Great Wester

dividend

ectors recommended that
fore, 32 per cent. for the half-ye

to be payable from the disposable balm
leave the sum of

... which will
Bs. 7d. to be carried to the credit
of the current half-year, which is always found to be pro-
'.elargest revenue." The report was agreed

ductive of ti

CALEDONIAN OPENING
RDSE.—On Monday the (

D ARBROATH AND MON-
lecary branch of this rail-
; thus completing the
1, Dundee, Arbroath,
from Dundee arrived
nd from Ar-

way was opened fo-r public tr

direct line bete
and Montrose.

at the Euston-
broath in 15k.
Montrose, coat
From official returns, it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 4,045 miles of railway, was
£237,194, thus accounted for :—£131,565 for the convey-

(Inure terminu
The line is continued from Arbroath to
sgengers on to Aberdeen.

mveving p,

ance of p:
goods. and

£47,692 for the carriage of

_ .
roods together
increase of ,E2r,

A respetively apportio'ned; being an

year, when the mileage was 3,230. The average earning
"52, whilst in 1847 they were £67.

per mi

Le were 4

the Eastern

,uuniaca iv...way, near me Lea-bridge station, on Tues-
day, by which Mr. William Bungrey, a solicitor, residing
at Stockbridge, in Hants, lost his life. The deceased
gentleman got on to the main lice at the moment a train

was approaching. The engine-driver sounded the steam
whistle, but from deafness, it is supposed, he was not
conscious of his danger until the buffer of the engine
caught him, and threw him apparently on to the perma-
nent way between the rails, the firebox of the engine
crushing him as it went along.
Mr. Glyn, at the London and North-western meeting
last week, took the opportunity of congratulating the
shareholders upon the connection with the docks in the
Thames, which will very shortly be realized. It is curious
to observe how every railway is trying to have its water
terminus. Mr. Hudson connects his astern Counties at
Yarmouth; his Hull and Selby at Hull; his northern
lines at Hartlepool and Sunderland. The Great Western
has Bristol, and is looking to Plymouth and Falmouth.
The shrewd men of Sheffield were laughed at for seizing
hold of dull Great Grimsby ; but every day's experience
is proving the wise policy of that step. The Lancashire
and Yorkshire have secured Goole ; the South-western,
Southampton, &c. ; and we have no doubt that, in a few
years, docks will be a feature of every important line.
The possession of a good water terminus is like extend-
ing the line, in one sense, to all the world.
RAILWAY COLLISIONS.—On Thursday morning a colli-
sion took place on the London and North-Western Rail-
way, between the early mail train from York and the
branch mail train from Peterborough. The spot where
the collision took place is called Ashton Bank, situate
about 54 miles on the northern side of Wolverton, and 24
miles from the Roade station. The Peterborough mail
train left Peterborough, drawn by No. 93 engine, and all
went well until the arrival of the train at Ashton Bank,
when the engine came to a dead stop, in consequence of
the connecting-rods of the engine having given way. The
York mail was at this time due, and the engine-driver,
being unable to do anything with his engine, immediately
dispatched his fireman down the line towards the Roade
station with the fog signal, it being exceedingly foggy at
the time, in order to stop the up-coming trains. The
York mail was at the moment approaching, and it appears
that there was not sufficient time after the engine-driver
of that train had sight of the fog signals, to stop to prevent
his running into the Peterborough train. Several of the
carriages were much damaged, and some of the passengers
were cut and bruised ; but no serious injuries appear to
have been sustained by any one, except a man named Col-
lins, the under-guard, whose head came in contact with
the break-iron, and who is thought to have sustained a
concussion of the brain. He has been removed to Lon-
don, and is now lying in the University College Hospital.
As soon as the line was cleared, the passengers were
brought to Wolverton by the Liverpool mail, and thence
to London, where they arrived at nine o'clock, upwards of
five hours after the proper time. Amongst the passengers
in the York train were the Rev. Dr. Townsend, Preben-
dary of Durham, his lady, and lady's maid (Mrs. Chorl-
ton). Happily the Dr. and his lady escaped with a few
trifling contusions, but Mrs. Chorlton was a good deal cut
about the head.—Another accident occurred on this line
of railway on Friday morning, by which the life of one of
the engine-drivers has been placed in imminent peril.
The following are the circumstances, as far as we have
been able to ascertain them :—Thomas Sands left Bir-
mingham at a quarter to nine o'clock on Thursday eve-
ning, in charge of a luggage train, which he brought
safely as far as the Tring-cutting. While. passing be-
tween this cutting his engine became out of order, and
the unfortunate man having become alarmed, threw him-
self off the engine-plate into the embankment, and sus-
tained a severe fracture of the thigh.—Another collision
took place at Birmingham on Friday. On the arrival of
the nine a.m. express train from London at the Birming-
ham terminus, a train of first and second class carriages
was being shifted on the main line. The driver of the
engine drawing the express train did not shut off his steam
in time. He ran into the train of empty carriages, smash-
ing three or four of the first-class, and damaging more or
less every carriage in the train. No life was lost.