The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTLLLIGEA CE.

It is stated that the reduction of fares on the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway has been followed by a great
increase in the number of passengers.
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAlLWAY.—Negotiations
are going on between the Directors of this railway and
those of the Lancaster and Preston Railways for an union
of interests.

LONDONDFRRY.--The two railways to this city seem
likely to 'excite the citizens to still further improvements.
Two projects are advertised for new bridges across the
Foyle in lieu.of the old one, which is an kmerican struc-
ture of vood, and certainly not fit for the place.
RAILWAY DEPOTATIONS.—A deputation from the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, including Mr. Law-
rence, Mr. Langton, Mr. George Loch, and Mr. Booth.
bad an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Friday
last. On the same day a deputation from the Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool-Railway ,consisting of Mr. Brancker,
Mr. Darbishire, (solicitor,) &c., had afi interview with his
lordship.
A railway is projected to start from the Auckland branch
of the Stockton and Darlington Railway past Barnard
Castle, and crossing the Tees, thence taking the most di.
rect line to Penrith, joining there the western coast line
running into Scotland, and thus forming a direct route to
Glasgow, &c., and connecting the eastern and western
sides of the island. Although the Duke of Cleveland op-
poses the line, the promoters are determined to proceed
with it.

Lord Glenlyon has interdicted the engineers engaged in
surveying the proposed line of railway from Inverness to
Perth. On entering his lordship's grounds the engineers
were met by a party of constables and others, who pre-
sented an interdict from the Court of Session, prohibiting
their entrance on the Atholl domains. This document
being considered more powerful than the poet laureate's
sonnet against the Kendal line, the engineers withdrew in
silence.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday last two
men, while repairing the line of the Great Western Rail-
way, near West Drayton, were killed by a train passing
over them. It was extremely foggy, and they could not
see the train.—On the same night, a fireman on the Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Railway was killed by his head
coining in contact with an iron pillar supporting Cleeve
Bridge, near Birmingham, while the train was passing
under the bridge.
EXTENSION OF THE LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAIL'
WAY.—A special general meeting of this railway company
was held at Leeds, on N.Ved nes day last, for the purpose of
considering the expediency of applying to Parliament,
next session, for an acc to enable the Leeds and Bradford
railway company to make a railway from Shipley to
Collie, with a branch from Keighley to Haworth. The
Chairman, George Hudson, Esq., stated that the proposed
extension would be about 33 miles, and the cost from
X 16,000 to X 17,000 mile. He also stated that the sum
to be raised was considerably above the engineers esti-
mate, in order to obviate the chance of having again to
apply to Parliament, and expressed a confident belief that
the whole line would be opened by the middle of 1846.
Resolutions, approving of the proposed undertaking, and
the raising of an additional capital of X 500,000, in 8000
shares of X5O each, and 8000 of £l2 10s. each, to be
offered, in the first instance, to existing proprietors, were
unanimously agreed to.
WIIITBY AND PICKERING RAILWAY.—Great altera-
tions and improvements are contemplated being made in
this line by the new proprietors. The carves are to be
lessened, the levels altered and improved, and the present
tunnel to be removed, and an open cutting to be substi-
tuted in its place, and the whole line adapted for locomo-
tive power. The recent purchase of the commodious pro-
perty lately belonging to Robert Barry, Esq., is intended
by the present indefatigable and spirited proprietor, Mr.
Hudson, to be appropriated for railway purposes, and a
handsome station is to be erected on the premises. The
plans for the improvement of the harbour have not yet
been made public; but a report from Mr. Walker is
speedily expected, and when known will excite great in-
terest. Mr. Hudson is also taking an active part in plan-
ning a road from the west cliff to the sands, preparatory
to carrying into effect certain plans for building lodging
houses, and other improvements which will be necessary
to meet the demand for the better accommodation of the
great influx of visitors which the improved facilities af-
forded by the railway, when the alterations are completed
and the line connected with York, and with the celebrity
which the beauties of the neighbourhood have of late at-
tained, cannot fail to attract in great numbers to this de-
lightful watering place.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday after-
noon, a frightful collision took place on the Midland
Counties Railway. In consequence of a tender having
got off the rails, the Derby train, which should have left
Nottingham at three o'clock, was delayed, and was, at
length, compelled to proceed along the down line, instead
of the proper line, a messenger having been despatched to
stop an expected down train at Beeston, about three miles
off, for fear, of collision. The messenger either did not
arrive at Beeston in time for the train, or he did not de-
liver bis message properly, and the train to Nottingham
had left the Beeston station before the train from Not-
tingham had United, and the engineer, either not know-
ing, or not regarding the message that had been for-
wardrd, drove the train at its usual rapid pace,•and a
tremendous collision took place. In consequence of the
down train being driven at a much more rapid pace than
the train from Nottingham, and being a much heavier
train, and having a powerful and very heavy engine, the
up-train from Nottingham sustained the principal part of
the damage. The up-train consisted of an engine and
tender, a second-class carriage, containing parcels, but no
passengers, then two second-class carriages, with passen-
gers, followed by a first-class carriage, with passengers,
and then a third-class carriage. So great was the force
with which the down•train met the up-train, that the en-
gine of the latter was actually driven from its position
downwards, and the boiler was elevated to the height of
many feet above it, the tender of the engine was driven
through the parcel carriage, and the two passenger second-
class conveyances were as completely smashed to pieces
as a nutshell when trodden under foot. The unfortunate
passengers in the two carriages were dreadfully crushed
and mutilated. Considering the number of passengers,
and the terrific force of the concussion, it appears
miraculous that no more persons were injured, and that
only two individuals met with their deaths. '1 hose per-
sons are Mr. Dean, commission agent, Hounds'-gate,
Nottingham, who died, in a few minutes after the acci-
dent, in a field by the side of the railway ; and Mr. Var-
nill, Derwent-bank, Derby. No less than twenty per-
sons are named who were more or less injured, some of
them having been severely crushed.