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

RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE.

On Wednesday a tram on the NeweaFtle and Carlisle
Railway ran though a drove of cattle that had strayed
upon the line, and killed three of them. The engine was
thrown off, hut no personal damage was sustained.

PROJECTED I? A ILW AY S.—A correspondent of the
Morning H'red gives a list of no less than 99 railways
at present projected, for the formation of which, accord-
log to the printed prospectuses, no less than seventy mil-
lions sterling will be required.
EXCURSION-TRAINS.—The Board of Trade have issued
a circular to railway companies, condemning the practice
of txcursion-trains with several ergines as dangerous;
and rccoul mending that the trains should be divided into
se pions, to each of which no more than two engines
should be attached.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday last, while the
Birmingle,m and Liverpool train was proceeding i.lfing the
line t the litter place, it came incontac with thesixo'c';:ck
passenger train from Alanches•er, 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 reraue TIME.—A gentleman left London last
Friday morning weA by the ten o'clock train for Fleet-
wood, where he joined the [loyal Consort steam-ship.
Laving that place at half-past eight o'cock in the even-
ing, he arrived next morning at Ardrosan at half-past
eight o'clock (twelve hours), where he tuft 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 LONORIDGE RAILWAY. —The half-
' yearly general meetqlg of proprietors was held on Mor,dar
last. The report stated that the receipts during the last
half year had considerably increased, and the directorsnd
had thereby been enabled to pay arrears of . interest and
debts owing by the company to different parties
to nolf
the
con-
siderable amount. Favourableaccountts
icv;trie,,rgiidygeer
and,
taking the present demand of stone at
quarry belonging to the company
t this' season as a
criterion, they expected, in the course of the rust year,
to be enabled to discharge the wit le. or the greater part,
of the fl ,sting debts and teu.porary loans, &c:, owing by
the compAsy.

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PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—A half-yearly meet-
ing of this company wa, held at Fleetwood on Fti:lay
The Dir. ctors reported a r onstdereble imt rovement in
the traffic returns, without any material increase in the
working expenses. Since 3lst At,gust to the 19th instant
the returns of railway have averaged t:527 per week against
£4lB tor thet.rev.ors half-year. \\lab, the last month the
important object of a sit atri communication berm Glrs-
gow, rid Ar,:rosmin, and Fleetwo,d. has been opened; by
the running or the new ships. tii e tines a wet k ; and it is
expected that, a fair proportitm of the Scotch traffic will
pass over the line. The 13!ackpool ilailway is to he 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-
moter-. of the railway front Harrowgate and Knaresbrongh
to 11.,1t0n Percy do not intend to renew theiriapplication
to P..rintinent in the next session. the scheme bring aban-
doned. This will enable the influence of this district to
he thrown entirely in ftvour of the int-nded Leeds and
Thirsk line. The York and North Midiard Railway
Company are surveyiog a line of railway from Milford or
Sht-rburn, on that line, to near ilarrowgate, by way of
Thorp Arch, Wetherby, and Spcfforth, in order to afford
a more ready communication to the south and south-c,st
titan will be givewbv the I.:eds. and Thirsk proposed rail-
war. The Great North of England Railway Company
have given powers to the directuta to make application to
Parlhtnent, in the next session, for a branch from tin it
line by Pill-Mcor, Borobridge, Stsveley, and Knares-
brough, to tear Ilarrogate, with a branch from near
13nrohridge to Ripon, and for a branch from Carlton-
station to Riettmnd. T,e former branch may have traffic
in coal, but little can be obtained in passengers or mer-
chandise.