Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-06-07 ()

RAILWAY NEWS ITEMS.  On the night of the 29th ult, it was discovered that a large signal box in the goods-yard on the Midland Railway, at Kentish Town, was on fire. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade was sent for, and in the meantime the deliveries from a private hydrant belonging to the railway were- set to work. The flames, however, could not be subdued, and entirely gutted the structure, which fell down. The night goods traffic was somewhat delayed. The new branch of the London and South-Western Railway, between Plymouth and Lydford, which has been constructed at a cost of half of million of money, was opened on the 30th ult. Great crowds assembled at the various stations, and addresses were presented to the chairman and diiectors. At Devonport, two special trains, containing representative men of Plymouth and Devonport, were welcomed, and speeches were delivered by Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, Lord St Leven, Sir J. Pnleston, M.P., and others, in which allusion was made to the great importance of a second complete double narrow gauge system between Plymouth and London. Subsequently the directors entertained the three representative bodies of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse at luncheon, in the Plymouth Guildhall. ..4/4140 • • •  At a special meeting Ofiht-3-Caledon-7—ian-Railway Company, held in Glasgow, on Thursday, the 29th ult., it was stated that Mr J. C. Bolton, M.P., who is abroad, would be home next week in improved health. The meeting unanimously approved 'of the construction of a railway from Crieff to Comrie, in Perthshire, a railway from the Caledonian and North British systems to Milngavie, Killearn, and the Port of Monteith; a railway to Ballantrae, another in Brechin, and other railways in Perthshire.  Lieutenant Weiss—who, together with Dr. Juehlke, who was murdered, explored the East African country from Pangani to Mount Kilima Njaro in 1885—discusses in the German "Colonial Gazette" a scheme for laying a railway from, the coast tolthe neighbourhood of that mountain. get points out that the construction of a railway there would be a splendid factor 'in the development of German East Africa. The line would start from the German station of Tagna, and touch at the following stations: Axnboni, a plantation of the German Planters' Company; _limbs, an English mission station on the Übumbine, a tributary of the Mkulumusi, which flows into Tanga Bay; and Mtangata, four and a half miles from the Great English mission station of Magila. The line will then pass to the south of Lea's, the great tobacco plantation of the East African Planters' Company, and will strike the valley of the River Pangani where it is 476 ft. above the sea level. Korogwa (951 ft. a deserted station of the East African Company, and Masinde (1679 ft. the residence of Limbodja, the chief of ITsambara, will be touched and the line will then be continued to the west along the Pare and trgueno Mountains to Aruscha (2421.), at the foot of Kilima Njaro. Lieutenant Weiss estimates the cost of building such a railway (of 223 miles) at £500,000, and the yearly working expenses about £56,000. He asserts that the country at the foot of Kilima Njaro is so salukrious, in consequence of its altitude, that German peasants could settle there. It would be singular if the first long-distance electric road should be established in Russia. Such a thing, however, seems more than probable, for a project is now on foot to connect St. Petersburg with Archangel, a distance of WO miles, by an electric railway. The enterprise, with which the name of Siemens is connected, is backed by Archangel interests, and the estimated cost of the road, including rolling stock, will be £3,000 per mile.  A deputation of the employes of the Great Southern Railway waited upon the directors on Monday with reference to the memorial presented after the recent strike. The Chairman stated that they would give no decision on the questions raised in the memorial until they were assured that the men would not, as a recent circular suggested, strike again, on account of the dismissal of certain porters who, as alleged, had asaulted new hands taken on during the strike. The directors were fully determined to keep thescinew men in their employment, and on no account would they take back the three men they had dismissed. If the men struck again the directors were willing to meet them and fight the matter out. A.