The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELIAUEACE.

The Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Junc-
tion Railway Bill has passed the standing orders.
The Committee of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury
Railway have decided that the Standing Orders had been
complied with.
The difference between railway scrip property at the
present prices and at those of September last is a reduc-
tion in value of from fifty to sixty millions.
Several of the passengers on the Great Western line
received severe contusions on the evening of Wednesday,
by a collision with a line of carriages a short distance
from Paddington. _ _

By an accident on the Newcastle and Darlington Rail-
way, the engine-driver of a train had his leg broken, and
a guard was seriously injured. The slipperiness of the
rails, produced by rain, is assigned as the cause.
The Standing Orders Committee have reported to the
house that in the case of the Birkenhead Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction Railway petition, and of the Hull and
Lincoln Railway petition, the standing orders ought to be
dispensed with. The bill for the former line was read a
first time on Thursday.

A project is on foot by which a continuous line of rail-
way, under one management and interest, will be secured
from the centre of England to the north of Scotland, by
the amalgamation of the Caledonian, Scottish Central,
and Perth and Inverness, with one of the new leading
lines in the north of England.
MOVEABLE BRIDGES, &c.—Amongst the new patents
granted this month we find the following:—John Haskins
Gandell and John Brunton, of Birkenhead, Cheshire, civil
engineers, for an improvement in the construction of, and
in the mode of opening and closing of, moveable bridges or
arches for the purpose of carrying railways, tramways, or
other roads across canals, locks, docks, or other open cut-
tings.

Ir. Chadwick, in a pamphlet just published, " On the
Moral and Physical Evils in Connexion with Railway
Works," says that the number of labouring men that were
Killed or wounded in the construction of the summit tun-
nel on the Sheffield and Manchester line equals the pro-
portionate casualties of a campaign or a severe battle.
The losses in this work were more than three per cent. of
killed and fourteen per cent. of wounded, while the deaths
in four of our principal battles amounted to only 2.11 per
cent of privates.
THE PROPOSED BRIDGE OVER THE TYNE, AT NEW-
CASTLE.—The site of the bridge is already well known.
It will extend from the Castle Garth to the high ground
on the south side of the river. There will be two road-
ways, one on a level with the Castle Garth, for carriages
and foot passengers, and the other at an elevation of 22
feet above it, with three lines of railway for locomotives.
The carriage road will be 1,380 feet in length, on a straight
line, and the locomotive way will be immediately above,
with the exception of a space at each end, the locomotive
line diverging at a point about 270 feet from each end, to
the west on the north side, to run into the general sta-
tion to be built at the Forth, and to the east on the south
side, to forma junction with the main line southward.
These diverging portions of the locomotive way will he
supported on handsome colonnades, each consisting of 20
metal pillars, which will give to the entire structure a
magnificent finish. The bridge itself will consist of six
river arches, with four land arches on each side, the for-
mer 124 feet 10 inches, and the latter 36 feet 3 inches span,
the land arches diminishing in altitude from the founda-
tion upwards, corresponding with the declivitous banks of
the river basin. These arches will be supported on p ers
of solid stone masonry, and will be constructed of cast
iron. The piers will be 48 feet by 16 feet 6 inches in
thickness, and in extreme height about 131 feet from the
foundation, having an opening in the centre through each,
so that, to the spectator at a distance, the bridge will ap-
pear to rest on pillars, and will present nothing of that
massive character which might be expected in a structure
of such tigantic proportions. These pillars will be built
on piles piercing the bed of the river, about 50 feet on the
north side, and about 20 feet on the south side.—New-
castle paper.