The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

The Caledonian- railway will be opened for traffic the
beginning of next month.
One hundred and twenty-nine railway bills have been
deposited for parliamentary examination.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—About two o'clock on
Thursday, while Mr. Payne, shoemaker, of Bitteswell, was
waiting at Rugby for the fourth class train, he carelessly
crossed the line of railway at the time the train was pass-
ing, and was struck by the engine and killed on the spot.
A portion of a screen of double columns, now con-
structing at the Euston Station, fell on Thursday, when
about 25 men were engaged at work, and twelve of them
were sadly injured, one so seriously that he is not expected
to recover.

The London and North-Western Railway Company
have adopted the practice of requiring all passengers pro-
ceeding from the Euston Square terminus, in London, to
show their tickets immediately before the starting of the
trains, and the first six trains so examined are stated to
have yielded £6O from passengers who had seated them-
selves without tickets.

From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,403 miles of rail-
way, was £178,912, thus accounted for :—.£93,095 for the
conveyance of passengers onl £44,604 for the carriage
of goods, and a remainder of -i41,213 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an
increase of £30,926 over the corresponding week of the
former year, when the mileage was 2,645. The average
earnings per mile for last week were £52, whilst in 1846
they were £56.

TRAFFIC RESULTS OF 1847.—Owing to various disturb-
ing circumstances, it is difficult to make a just or perfectly
satisfactory comparison between the traffic of the years
1846 and 1847. The mere comparison of the totals is fal-
lacious. The mileage has increased 25 per cent., the re-
ceipt only 16 on the whole of the railways. It is not to
be expected that many miles which were opened towards
the very end of the year should instantly be very pro-
ductive. Still the prospect appears satisfactory, and par-
ticularly so in those cases where a true parallel can be
made. We will not pretend to estimate what precise
effect the times may have had, although it is obviously a
moat influential circumstance—more or less affecting all
lines. To be able to form a perfectly just estimate, it is
obvious that the amount of mileage ought to be the same
in both years. But this happens to be the case in only
one or two instances of the more important railways :
in the Dublin and Kingstown, in the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, On the first-named line, the increase is 6 per cent. ;
on the second, 2 per cent. ; whilst on the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire it is as much as 17 per cent. ;
a fact of peculiar congratulation to the shareholders.
Next in the category of good results stands the Newcastle
and Carlisle : the mileage increase has been 8 per cent.,
traffic 13 per cent. In the South-Eastern the mileage
has increased 13, the receipts 17 ; Midland, mileage in-
crease 16, traffic 15 ; Eastern Counties, mile!ige 25, traffic
29 ; Glasgow. Paisley, and Ayr, mile;„
Norfolk, mileage 38, traffic 33 ; Dublin at
mileage 9, traffic 6 ; York and Newm-''

21, traf

Drogheda
e, mileage 60

traffio4o ; York and North Midland, mileage 42, traffic
24 ; London and North-Western, mileage 13, traffic 7;
London and South Coast, mileage 36, traffic 16; London
and South-Western, mileage 75, traffic 20; Great V
tern, mileage 12, traffic 3 ; Edinburgh and (
age 15, traffic 3.—Railway Chronicle

asgow, mile