The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-24 00:00:00

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The railways now before parliament vary in length
from less than one mile (the Bridgewater Navigation and
Railway Branch being only 70 chains) to 327 miles,—
that of the London and York Line.
EAST INDIA RAILWAYS.—The Court of Directors
have appointed an experienced person as Surveyor of
Railways in India, at a salary of £4,000 a-year for five
years, and £5OO for his passage, &c. out, and the same
sum home.

On Friday a meeting of the shareholders in the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway was held in this town, when
a committee was appointed to confer with the Ma:;chester
shareholders, as to securing an alteration in the director-
ate. Reporters were not admitted.
SOUTHPORT AND EUXTON RAILWAY.—The commit.
tee on this line decided on Monday in favour of a com-
munication with Southport, but they thought the case
was not so well sustained as it might be by some other
scheme next session. The committee therefore proposed
to suspend its proceedings until the Bth of July, and to
report conditionally in favour of the preamble of the bill,
so as not to shut out the Liverpool and Orrnskirk project
from being a competing line next session, if it should be
again brought forward.
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS.--The preambles of
the following have been proved in the Lords ork and
North Midland (Bridlington Branch). Midland (Notting-
ham to Lincoln), Hull and Selby (Bridlington Branch),
Lynn and Ely, Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, Midland Syston to Peterborough),
Norwich and Brandon (Wymondharn Branch). In the
Commons :—Aberdare, Glasgow Junction. Preambles
not proved :—Coventry, Bedworth and Nuneaton, Diss,
Beccles and Yarmouth, Direct Norwich. Rejected :
South Wales.

PROSsER'S RAILWAY GUIDE W lIEELS.—The per-
formances of the experimental train on the wooden rail-
way laid down across Wimbledon-common, to test the
capability and power of Mr. Prosser's guide wheel, were
witnessed on Wednesday by many scientific men. The
whole extent of the railway laid down is about two miles
and a half, that portion of it, which is straight, being
two-thirds of a mile, and the remaining part being a curve,
or curves approaching nearly to semicircles ; each curve
is seven-eighths of a mile in length. The exi.eriments
were very satisfactory, and established the principle on
which the guide wheels were adopted. The curves were
rounded or traversed at a speed of twenty-five or twenty
six miles an hour, and the motion was neither too great,
nor the noise oppressive.

BIDEFORD AND TAVISTOCK RAILIVAT.—JUNCTION
OF BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL.—A highly influential
meeting in support of this undertaking was held at Oke-
hampton, on the 7th instant, the mayor in the chair.
Resolutions in its favour were carried unanimously. The
following sketch of its objects is from the Railway Her-
ald :—" This is a hold scheme, ard one likely to take.
It proposes a fixed bridge over the Old or Aust Passage,
across the estuary of the Severn, which it will turn to Ac-
count for railway and general traffic. By a line from
Bristol to Hereford it will form a continuous route from
Bristol to Liverpool, saving forty-two miles in the present
route, and avoiding the Bristol and Gloucester, which has
deserted the Great Western for the Midland. The line is
only forty-eight miles long, and, with the bridge, will
cost £2,000,000. It will be of great benefit to the Bris-
tol and Exeter, and South Devon."

ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
accident occurred to the express train of this Company,
which left Paddington at a quarter before ten o'clock on
Tuesday morning for Exeter, but happily without being
attended with very serious consequences to the passengers.
It appears that some obstruction, which has not yet been
clearly ascertained, threw the luggage van off the rails,
whence it ran for upwards of half a mile upon the longi-
tudinal timbers, without displacing any of the carriages
in the train. After this, however, it struck a girder of a
road-bridge, and ran into the ballast; the shock broke
up some of the rails, and the carriages were also thrown
off the line. Two of them; were upset. The luggage van
was on four wheels only, and had been placed next to the
tender. The engine and tender never quitted the rails.
There were 145 passengers in the train, the greater num-
ar of whom proceeded by the following train to their
`ination. There wet e a few cases of ii:jury from brui-
but it is hoped that none are likely to prove serious.
LONDON AND MANCHFSTIe-

DIRECT INDEPENDENT

—Manchester, Saturday.—(From our Correspondent.)
—The project of direct lines is every day becoming more
popular in these districts. A few days ago a deputation,
from the promoters of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, met the promoters in this town, at the Queen's
Hotel. The deputation was headed by Sir Geo. Stephen
and Mr. Owens, solicitor, of London, who were met by a
numerous party of gentlemen, who entered warmly into
the undertaking. I understand the same pbrties are pro-
moting a direct line from this town to Chester, which

forms a part of their scheme. The country has been
surveyed by Mr. Remington, their engineer, and the
distance, I believe, is 34 miles. This latter pait of the

scheme was contemplated some years ago, when it was
proposed to cut a ship canal from the channel to that city.

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