The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Southport Branch of the Or.nskirk and Preston
Railway is to be brought out next year.
It is said that there are 200,000 navigators employed on
railways.
The Crewe railway project, which will connect Wor-
cester with Shrewsbury, is again revived.
Thursday, the directors of the North Wales Mineral
Railway traversed the whole of the line from Chester to
Ruabon.

EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—A general meeting of
shareholders of this line was held on Friday, at Bury,
when the proposed amalgamation with the Liverpool,Orms-
kirk, and Preston company was unanimously agreed to.

WHATS' IN THE WlND?—Within the last few days
parties have been surveying for a line from the Chester
and Holyhead line to the Grand Junction line, avoiding
the Chester and Birkenbead station.

There was a terrific flood in Newcastle-on-Tyne, on
Wednesday. It injured several bridges on the North
British Railway, and totally destroyed some of them.
The trains were delayed.

SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAYS.—We hear that an
arrangement for the possession of this line by the London
and North-Western Company is on the eve of being com-
pleted.

The foundation stone of the Menai tunnel suspension-
bridge was quietly deposited in the presence of the engi-
neers of the district and the contractors on Friday week.
The erection of the bridge is expected to occupy three
years.

The electric telegraph was 'aced vindictively or fool'sh-
ly, on the Eastern Counties Railway, on Monday. Word
was passed from Norwhich to London, to stop a thief
the person alluded to, turned out, however, to be only a

creditor, and, of course, an " action will lie."
The death of Mrs. Hind, widow of Mr. William Hind
who was killed on the Eastern Counties Railway. toot

Vednesday morning

wounded husband

produced such a

that she gradually sunk

A boy of fourteen, has been killed at the Preston sta-
tion of the East Lancashire Railway, by attempting to
jump on a carriage before the train had stopped: he fell
across the rails, and two carriages passed over him. The
lad was employed at the station, and was to receive some
tickets from the guards of the train.
A considerable portion of the tunnel of the Newcastle
and North Shields Railway, which commences at North
Shields, about a mile in length, fell in on Wednesday
morning. No lives were lost. It is thought the accident
has arisen from the quantity of rain which bad fallen since
Monday morning, having undermined the foundations.
A splendidly-finished salver. twenty inches in diameter,
has been presented to Dr. Bowring, chairman of the

con Company, by the workmen, &c. of the valley,
l of their gratitude for his exertions in pro-
curing railway accommodation for the district, and for
abolishing the truck system at the works.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE WALTON RAILWAY TUN-
NEL.—Owing to the carelessness of the en.;-- ' •
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as a tstimonia

no, —ending to a party ascending from the tunnel, on
the 9th of July, a young man was thrown out of a skip,
and hurt. lie died this week. The jury found a verdict
of manslaughter against William ilornby, the engine-
driver, who, shortly after the accident, absconded, and
has not since been heard of.

FATAL
RAILWAY

ACCIDENT Ov THE LEEDS AND THIRSE
—We have to record the untimely end of a

young man upon the above line, which happened on Wed-
nesday week, at Brambope, being the second fatal acci-
dent which has happened therein. The unfortunate man
was descending the shaft after blasting, when a stone
which had been loosened thereby fell upon his head and
broke his neck.

From official returns it appears that the amount of

,
was 1.1 78,037, thus accounted for :—X101,909 for the con-
veyance of passengers only, £39 .829 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £36,299 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an in-
crease over the corresponding week of last year of
£33,153.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION TO MOLD.—We believe,
says the Chester Chronicle, that Mold has now a fair
prospect of possessing efficient railway accommodation, on
terms that will not be prejudical to any in•erest, but will
be acceptable to all. Surveys have been made at the in-
instance of powerful companies for lines, on the course of
the Alyn, communicating with the existing railways to
Chester; and such lines are of easy gradients and cheap to
make. The usual notices will be given next month.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morn-
ing, as the six o'clock down train on the London and
North Western (late London and Birmingham) line was
stopping just on this side of Watford to take in water, it
was run into by one of the up-luggage trains, and the loss
of one lite is to be reckoned amongst the casualties ac-
cruing from this melancholy catastrophe, while one of the
company's engineers, named Henry Gibbs, had both his
legs crushed, and was otherwise much injured.
LIyERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—
At the first ordinary general meeting of this company, on
Wednesday,—Sir W. Fielden, Bart., in the chair,—the
report which announced the success of the measure, was
unanimously adopted. An extraordinary general meeting
then took place, when it was agreed to sell the line to the
East Lancashire for 26,162 new shares, of the nominal
amount of £25 each, of which £2 10s. shall be considered
to be paid, and 3,838 shares, upon which nothing has been
paid, to be created by and in the East Lancashire, and
that the directors be authorised to perfect deeds and as-
signments to carry such sale into full effect.

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a lament-
able accident occurred on the North British Railway, at
Aberdeen. Several arches at the inclined plane had been
completed, and the necessary wooden erections to support it
while building were taken away last week ; and arrange-
ments were in progress to proceed with others. A little
before eight o'clock in the morning three of the arches
gave way, burying amongst the stones, bricks, and rub-
bish, a number of the workmen. Measures were instantly
taken to relieve the unfortunate individuals ; but we la-
ment to state that after a tedious and arduous task of up-
wards of an hour, seven were taken out dead, having evi-
dently been killed instantaneously ; four others were got
out, much bruised, of whom two were taken to the infir-
mary, and two to their own houses. Two of these have
sines died.

THE NEW RAILWAY TUNNEL.—The directors of the
London and North-Western Railway are about commenr;-
ing the Victoria Tunnel, from Edge-hill to the Waterloo
Dock, a distance of 21 miles. A spacious station for
goods and cattle will be made between Great Howard-
street and the dock, extending from Stuart-street to the
back of the warehouses fronting Formby-street. There
will also be a goods' station in H odson- street, behind By-
rom-street, which will be the only opening in the whole
length. A splendid bridge is to be thrown over the rail-
way crossing the Wavertree-road, and also an iron bridge
to carry Great Howard-street over the railway. The
station at Edge-hill will be materially enlarged. When
these extensive works are completed, both passengers,
merchandise, and cattle will be taken from the side of the
dock ; and the great nuisance of driving Irish cattle
through the streets will at once be abated. The whole of
these extensive works have been contracted for by our
spirited townsmen, Messrs. Samuel and James Holme,
and Mr. M'Cormick, the eminent contractor, conjointly,
and the cost of them will be under £lBO,OOO. The bridge
over the railway in Wavertree-road is to be completed in
six months, and the whole work in two years.