The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE:

" Amalgamation " is the order of the day. A junction
between the North Union and Bolton and Preston Rail-
way Companies is talked of.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—DaHIage to the amount
of £lOOO, it is thought, has been done, by the high winds
and spring tides, to the works and materials of this rail-
way, between Archcliff Fort and the Stine head.

The branch from the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway to Macclesfield, is now in a fair way of being
constructed, surveyors and others being engaged staking
out the line preparatory to the operations of the con-
tractors. It will branch off at or near Cheadle Hulme.

We learn from Dover that damage to the amount of
£lOOO, it is thought, has been done by the high wind and
spring-tides to the works and materials of the South-
Eastern Railway, between Arcticliff Ford and the Stine
Head.

OXFORD AND DIDCOT RAILWAY.—We understand
that the works on this line are progressing rapidly, chiefly
in the neighbourhood of Radley and Appleford ; and there
is but little doubt that the opening of the railway will take
place in June, previous to the grand commemoration
which will take place next year.—Oxford Herald.
An accident occurred on Tuesday night last on the
Dover Railway, whereby the driver of the train which
reaches the London terminus at a quarter-past ten o'clock
has unfortunately lost his life. It seems that the poor
fellow, in leaning over the engine carriage, overbalanced
himself and fell under the wheels.
PLYMOUTH, DEVONPORT, AND EXETER RAILWAY.
—The arrangement with the Great Western, Bristol and
Exeter, and Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company,
for the advance of 4100,000 sas been perfected, and last
week the shareholders met at Plymouth, to elect the seven
directors apportioned to the shareholders.
It is said that Mr. George Hudson, of York, will be
appointed chairman of the three amalgamated Midland
Railway Companies ; the honourable gentleman will then
be chairman of no less than six lines, namely, the Mid-
land Counties, Derby Junction, North Midland, York
and North Midland, the Newcastle and Darlington, and
Leeds and Selby.--Hull Packet.

On Sunday some miscreant placed a plank across the
line on the Great Western Railway near Twyford, for the
purpose of upsetting the mail train, but his diabolical
attempt was providentially frustrated by the discovery of
the object by a policeman on duty. A fellow in the em-
ploy of Mr. Cotterell, of Ruscombe, as shepherd, is in
custody on the charge.—Berks Chronicle.
A line from the landing pier at Fleetwood, to Furness,
as now being thought of by the people of Lancashire, who
calculate on the support of the Duke of Buckingham and
the Earl of Burlington, through whose property a portion
of the proposed lino is- to run. Mr. Walker estimates the
cost at £lOO,OOO. If is to be worked by horse traction,
but the line is to be so constructed as to be applicable, if
requisite, to steam conveyance, since it may afterwards
be made to constitute part of the main line to the north
of Fleetwood, by Carlisle, and to the west of England.
BURSTING OF A STEAM ENGINP. ON THE LONDON
AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—

This morning some anxiety was manifested in this town
through the first train, which leaves London at half-past
eight, not arriving at its proper time. It may be obser-
ved.that more notice is taken of the arrival of this train
than any other, in consequence of its being that by which
the London morning journals ere conveyed to Brighton.
It appears that the train kept its time up to the Hassocks
station, which is within eight miles of Brighton, and the
last stoppage it had to make. A short distance from the
north entrance to Clayton tunnel some of the tubes of the
boiler suddenly burst. The engineer immediately gave
the signal to the guards to put on the breaks, and was
promptly answered, and as the engine did not stop, pre-
vented the slightest collision ; hut, notwithstanding, some
alarm was created amongst the passengers. The engine
,vas unhooked from the train, and endeavoured to make

its way to Brighton to obtain assistance, but the escape
of water was so great that it put out the fires, and left it
in the middle of Clayton tunnel. The alarm signals were
immediately hoisted, and every precaution taken to pre-
vent the possibility of an accident by collision with the

other trains. At this time the train of carriait
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before their arrival, the pilot engine, which had been
helping the ten o'clock up-train, returned, and dragged
the train and damaged engine in safety to Brighton, where
it arrived at ten minutes- to twelve. The excellent arrange-