The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

RAILWAYS IN LANCASHIRE.

(Front a Correspondent.)
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NOVEMBER having passed, the Public are ella
1.1 to form some idea of the parties who are seriogeot
bent on attempting to obtain the sanction of Parlismet,
to the execution of their schemes—much speculation beef
ing been afloat lately, as to whether some of the no.
companies would not at the last be either wilfully or
avoidably found wanting. 0'
The Bolton and Wigan, bringing two important 01:the
facturiug towns into more immediate connection witvtion
port of Liverpool, have certainly claims on the attenco
of Parliament; but their extension to Heywood, by Pi,e,,00l
them in a position of a competing line with the Licelbs!
and Manchester, must bring them into collision 0'0)00
body, and would, in all probability, have proved prejn
to their interests, had the Liverpool and Manchester it
tinned their independence. As matters now Wei,
seems questionable whether the great amalgamations
in course of negotiation, may not rather incline the lea
lature to encourage the formation of competing linee'che!
The Euxton and Southport branch, as also the broil ljt•
from St. Helen's to Rufford, and from Hainford tl6
verpool, are rather abstruse in their character. _ toe
penetration, however, is required to see in their tfr rooet
course a desperate effort to overthrow one of O'brote
legitimate schemes of the day—'• The Liverpool, ota I
kirk, and Preston,"—a line which, impartiallY
must be admitted to present advantages of the firstutoeo
reducing, as it will, the present railway distance bet and
Liverpool and the important towns of Blackburotent
Preston by 12 miles, and diminishing to the same, pa b9the communication between Liverpool and ScotLe,,, the
the Carlisle line,—advantages which, according ore
great Napoleon of the North, would in therosell'of the
than justify the making of the line, independepto tbie
stream of traffic which may be expected to doif
channel by judicious management on the part °Btioni
rectors and those of other projected lines to the eoi an,
independent also of the traffic between Lige4ieb
Preston not at present conveyed by railway' endent 0
been very much underrated ; moreover, indePeated
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distant from any railway, has to demand from comonli
tore its just share in the advantages of railway sible fie
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