The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

RAILWA Y AFFAIRS.

Messrs. Fairbairn are constructing the engines which
are to run express t,ains between London and Birming.
ham in two hours and a half. The driving wheels are to
be seven feet in diameter, and the tanks of the tenders
are to hold 2,000 gallons of water, so that, if necessary,
the engines can run 60 or 70 miles without stopping for
water.

WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND BIRKENHEAD
RAILWAY.—On Monday Master Brougham, after hearing
Mr. Glasse and Mr. Rogers, on the case of Mr. W. Cooper,
jun., an allottee of twenty shares of £2O, each in this
company, who agreed, in writing, to take the shares and
pay the deposit of two guineas thereon, but who—the panic
supervening—did not, directed Mr. Norris, the official-
manager, as the decision will affect 1,400 allottees in the
company, to carry the case forward on appeal, so that the
question, which has a bearing on a great many other
companies, may be determined by the. House of Lords.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.--The battle
between a large portion of the shareholders and the board
of this company continues as fierce as ever; one party,
with the directors, strenuously insisting on accepting the
terms offered by the Great Western, and the other an alli-
ance with the London and Northwestern, who, they con-
tend, offer more certain and substantial terms. By a
correspondence with Mr. Stewart, the secretary of the
London and Northwestern, it has been inferred that the
London and Northwestern would give a guarantee of 4}
per cent. The. London and Northwestern party are,
therefore, anxious at the next meeting, on the 16th July, to
refer the whole question to a committee, which, they think,
will not fail to see a great advantage in the London and
Northwestern alliance over that of the Great Western.—
Herapath's Journal.
SPEED AND POWER OF THE NARROW GAUGE.—Great
doubt has been expressed in reference to the stated per-
formances of Mr. Crampton's six feet driving whee 1
engines at work upon the South-Eastern Railway.
Many practical engineers even deny the possibility of
obtaining 73 miles per hour with an engine having only
six.feet °driving wheels. With us, the speed of the
engine, with a train of eight carriages, weighing 44 tons,
does not:admit of question, because, on Wednesday last,
we timed the speed every quarter of a mile of the dis-
tance between Reigate and Tonbridge, viz., '2O miles,
with a train of eight carriages, and from what we saw of
the working of the engine, we have no doubt whatever
that, with six, or say four carriages, she would reach a
speed of 80 miles per hour. One of our contemporaries
" thinks" there is very little difference in running 20
miles in 191 minutes, and in 20 minutes 49 seconds, as
witnessed by us. The difference of 79 seconds in a Tun
of 18 miles, which is the greatest possible distance over
which an engine could maintain her maximum speed in a
run of 20 miles, is not small. It amounts to nearly five
miles and a half per hour. To accomplish 20 miles in 20
minutes 49 seconds with eight carriages requires a velocity
of 66.67 miles per hour for 18 miles—to perform it in 19/
?quires a speed of 72 miles per hour over that

distance