The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

It is intended to form a line of railway from the Fleet-
wood line to the fashionable watering-place of Blackpool.
The distance is about three miles.
BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER 11 A.ILWAY.—The directors
made a trip on this line from Bristol as far as Stonehouse,-
on Thursday last.
RAILWAY FROM LONDONDERRY TO ENNISKILLEN.—
On Wednesday last, a meeting was held at Londonderry,
when it was determined to carry out this undertaking, for
which a company was formed in the year 1836, and the
progress of which was arrested at the time by the com-
mercial embarrassments of the country.

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS JUNCTION
RAILWAY,—The proposed line is now being surveyed ;
the course is that pointed out by M r. Percey, of Sherebone,
in 1825, as the most eligible for the then projected Grand
Ship Canal, viz., from Bridgewater to Ilchester, near
Yeovil, Sturniinster, Newton, Bradford, to the Port of
Poole.

THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY EXTENSION TO
OXFORD.—The directors, accompanied by a large party
of their friends, came down to Oxford on Monday by a
special train, to inspect tile works, which they found in a
very satisfactory state. After inspecting the station at
Oxford, and the bridges at Nuneham and Appleford, they
returned to Paddington by a special train. On Wednesday
morning the line was opened for traffic, and was found in
very good order.
DOVER AND GREENWICH RAILWAYS.—On Tuesdalt
the directors of the Greenwich Railway submitted a pro-
position to the Dover company to lease their line on the
following terms : namely, that the Dover should give
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iyo fx£lo3ooo, oyoeoafrol
yearly,
the expenditure.
annum, which is about 5 per cent. a penny per head for
Then, that they should rece
00i0per a •
nnum passing over
every passenger above 6,000, year, and
railway already formed will be extended fro°
roaching completion. On Tuesday, (this day,/
fpNOILTU OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.—The
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way communication between London and Edinburgh
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Darlington to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The entire dis-
tance between London and Newcastle, upwards of 300
,tuhentfiitritt rYoettne-,
miles, will be accomplished, it is calculated, In twelve
hours, including all stoppages. From Newcastle to Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, a distance of sixty miles, a line of
railway has been projected, and surveys made by the east
coast, and thence to Edinburgh, little more than fifty
miles, a line is already in course of formation. On
leaving the station in Euston-square, the traveller passes
83 miles along the London and Birmingham Railway to
Rugby, thence 494 miles along the Midland Counties
Railway to Derby, thence 631 miles along the North Mid-
land Railway to Normanton, thence 231 miles along the
York and North Midland Railway to the Cathedral City
of York, thence 45 miles along the Great North of Eaf-
land Railway to Darlington, thence 271 miles along tie.
Newcastle, Darlington, and Durham Junction RailwaY sf
Tyne)
Shields Railway (formerly the Stanhope and Tya
Worbington, thence 51 miles along the Pontop and S0?1,! 9
Brockley Whins, where the line diverges to Sunde
and Shields, and thence 64 miles along the Bran.dundap
Junction Railway to Newcastle, or rather to Gatesh_e7fi.
on the south bank of the River Tyne,
cent station is being erected. A more direct
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York to London has been projected through the E.nasit_yn.
Counties by way of Bedford, Huntingdon, and le
where a astlgrroni
and
which will shorten the distance by about thirty Ilmniting
pass over the most extensive planes in England,
cooa-
the vallies of the Trent and Ouse by direct railway
munication with the metropolis.

FRATRICIDE.—A man of the name of John Child or
Leeds, has been committed to York Castle on a charge of
manslaughter. The prisoner was quarrelling with his bro-
ther on Tuesday last, and at length they commenced fightces
-
ing, when the prisoner stabbed his brother in five pla
with a clasp knife, inflicting such serious wounds as to
penetrlte the heart, and of course cause the death of the
unfortunate man alrookt immediately. •

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