The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY INT' LLIGEA CE.

On Wednesday a train on the Newcastle and Carlisle
Railway ran through a drove of cattle that had strayed
upon the line, and killed three of them. The engine was
thrown off, but no personal damage was sustained.
PROJECTED It AILWAYS.—A correspondent of the
Morning Htrald gives a list of no less than 99 railways
at present projected, for the formation of which, accord-
ing to the printed prospectuses; no less than seventy mil-
lions sterling will be required.
ExcunstoN-TRAINS.--The Board of Trade have issued
a circular to railway companies, condemning the practice
of excursion-trains with several engines as dangerous;
and recommending that the trains should be divided into
sections, to each of which no more than two engines
should be attached.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, while the
Birmingham and Liverpool train was proceeding along the
line to the Litter place, i t came incontac' with the six o'clock
passenger train from Manchester, when, owing to the
dense fog, a severe shock was the result. Several pas-
sengers were bruised, and one woman seriously hurt.
The truck belonging to the train was broken.
STEAM versus TIME.—A. gentleman left London last
Friday morning week by the ten o'clock train for Fleet-
wood, where he joined the Royal Consort steam-ship.
Leaving that place at half-past eight o'cock in the even-
ing, he arrived next morning at Ardrossan at half-past
eight o'clock (twelve hours), where he left per special
train, and was in Glasgow by ten o'clock a.m., thus
accomplishing the distance of 400 miles in 21 hours.

PRESTON AND LON GRIDGE RAILWAY. - The half-
yearly general meeting of proprietors was held on Monday
last. The report stated that the receipts during the last
half year had considerably increased, and the directors
had thereby been enabled to pay arrears of interest and
debts owing by the company to different parties to a con-
siderable amount. Favourable accounts were given of the
quarry belonging to the company at Longridge ; and,
taking the present demand of stone at this season as a
criterion, they expected, in the course of the next year,
to be enabled to discharge the whole, or the greater part,
of the floating debts and temporary loans, &c., owing by
the company.
PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—A half-yearly meet-
ing of this company was held at Fleetwood on Friday last.
The Directors reported a considerable improvement in
the traffic returns, without any material increase in the
working expenses. Since 31st August to the 19th instant
the returns of railway have averaged £527 per week against
£4lB for the previous half-year. Within the last month the
important object of a steam communication between Gies-
gow, viii Ardrosean, and Fleetwood, has been opened, by
the running of the new ships, five times a week; and it is
expected that, a fair proportion of the Scotch traffic will
pass over the line. The Blackpool liailway is to be pro-
ceeded with so as to be ready by May next. The Direc-
tors expressed a hope that circumstances might be such
as to lead to an early commencement of the new docks.

PROPOSED RAILWAYS TO HARROGATE, &C.—The pro-
moters of the railway from Harrowgateand Knaresbrough
to Bolton Percy do not intend to renew their application
to Parliament in the next session, the scheme being aban-
doned. This will enable the influence of this district to
be thrown entirely in favour of the intended Leeds and
Thirsk line. The York and North Midland Railway
Company are surveying a line of railway from Milford or
Sherburn, on that line, to near Harrowgate, by way of
Thorp Arch, Wetherby, and Spofforth, in order to afford
a more ready communication to the south and south-east
than will be given by the Leeds and Thirsk proposed rail-
way. The Great North of England Railway Company
have given powers to the directors to make application to
Parliament, in the next session, for a branch from their
line by Pill-Moor, Borobridge, Staveley, and Knares-
brough, to near Harrogate, with a branch from near
Borobridge to Ripon, and for a branch from Carlton:
station to Richmond. The former branch may have traffic
in coal, but little can be obtained in passengers or mer-
chandise.