The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

RAILTI-AY INTELLIGEACE.

The projected railway from Beve!ley to Hull, in con-
nection with the Hull and Selby, is proposed to be
constructed on Mr. Prosser's plan of wooden rails and
bevel wheels.

EXPLOSION ON A RAlLWAY.—Yesterday week, at
Brighton, the non-arrival of the last train from London
caused some alarm and a pilot engine was sent ,‘n to as-
certain the cause, mhen it was found that at Hayward's
Heath Station one of the boiler tubes had burst, and
envelloped the train in steam. No one was injured by
the explosion. The pilot brought up the train after a
delay of an hour.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Banbury was he'd on
Friday to discuss the merits of four projects of railway,
which have been submitted as advantageous to that town,
and the one selected by a large majority was the Great
Western, from Oxford to Rugby. The other three were
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton hie; the
London and Birmingham, from Weedon to Worcester;
and the Birmingham, Banbury, and Oxford line. Depu-
tations were present in behalf of the respective projects,
and a very animated d.bate was entered into.

BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY.—This railway,
37 miles in length, was opened on Monday last, and the
event was marked with the usual demonstrations of re-
joicings. On Saturday the directors and their friends
made an excursion on the line by a special train, and par-
took of a &gentler ala fourchette at Gloucester. By the
opening of this line the inconvenience hitherto experienced
by the public from the dissevertnce of the chain railway
between the west and north of England is at length ob-
viated.

At the Ulster Railway meeting held on the 3d inst., the
shareholders resolved to complete the orig nal plan of the
company by carrying on the line ,from Portadown to
Armagh. The engineer stated that the expet,se would be
about £lO,OOO per mile, including the cost of the bridge
across the river Baun. Traffic appears to be expected
from the adjoining districts, and Armagh being a town of
greater population than Portadown, it has been thought
more desirable to make the terminus there. An extension
as far as Monaghan was spoken of by some parties, but
this did not mEtet with the approbation of the meeting.
DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Thursday
morning, Mr. Thomas Anthony Tuelon, aged 81, of
Denehfield, Surrey, died very suddenly in a railway car-
riage in which he had just taken his seat at the London
station to return home, after transacting a good deal of
business at the Bank and other places. His two sons
were by him at the time. A physician who had attended
him for some years said that his health was generally ex-
cellent. but, from symptoms of disease cf the heart, he
warned the family two or three years ago that he might
die suddenly. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of
God."

MISCHIEF AND DISTRESSING CALAMITY.—AbOut two
days ago, Mr. Joseph Crawshaw, contractor on the
Sheffield and Manchester Railway, having gone to York
to look after another contract, and detained longer than
expected, some malicious persons raised a rumour
that he had been thrown on the rails and killed. His
relations in alarm sent his brother Richard in search of
him to York, when he found him well, and also that he
had been successful in his tenders for 44 miles of road.
On Mr. Joseph reaching home, being elated at his pros-
pects, and employed in the viaduct at Blacktnoor, went
too near to a stone that was just slung, and it fell upon
him and crushed him to death ! The outrageous fabrica-
tion of his death was thus in some measure confirmed.
Low FARES ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.—It appears from Mr. Lang's paper, appended
to the select committee's report, that at present the
London and Birmingham Company carry 780,000 passen-
gers per annum, and average distance of 66 miles each.
Of this number, 37 per cent. pay 3d. per mile; 54 per
cent., 2d. ; and 9 per cent., lid. Supposing the com-
pany to run third-class carriages at Id. per mile, with all
their trains, and allowing that 15 per cent., paid 3d. per
mile, 30 per cent. paid 2d., and 55 per cent. ld., they
would require to carry 2,979,670 persons (or nearly four
times the present number,) an average distance of thirty
miles each, to secure the same gross returns ; or, as the
expenditure would be increased, the number must be
increased to 3,500,000 to retain the existing amount of
net profit.—Railway Record.
YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE RAILWAYS.--Within
the last few days, public meetings have been held at
Keighley, Colne, Burnley, Haworth, and other places in
the vicinity of the proposed lines, on the subject of the
proposed extension of railway communication from Brad-
ford to the North of Lancashire. It seems that the pro
rooters of the new line of railway from Preston to Black-
burn, for making which an act has only been obtained
during the present session, are anxious to extend it to
Burnley, Colne, and the Yorkshire Railways ; and that
the promoters of the Bradford and Leeds Railway are
equally desirous to carry forward their line to Keighley,
and through Craven, into Lancashire, but that there is
considerable difference of opinion between the two parties
as to the best line to be taken for the purpose. The Leeds
and Bradford Company propose to continue their line from
Shipley to Bingley, and thence up the valley of the Aire
to Skipton, with a branch to Keighley, and from Skipton
to make a junction line to Blackburn. The Blackburn
Company recommend a line through Burnley and Collin
to Shipley, to effect which it will be necessary to make a
long tunnel, with steep gradients in other parts of the
line, sometimes to the extent of lin 80. Nothing has
been decided, but the surveys are proceeding; and a meet-
' ing held at Keighley, on Monday, for the purpose of se-
lecting the site for a station, declined to do to until the
line was fixed upon.