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Progress of British Railways IN the January number of the Civil Engineer and Architects9 Journal, under the heading "Progress of Railways", were given extracts from various newspapers referring to the state of construction, growth of traffic, etc., on some fifteen railways. Of the Eastern Counties Railway, it was said: "The works of this railway are now pushed as far as Ilford and it is confidently expected that it will be opened to that town (seven miles) next summer.'* As regards the Grand Junction Railway, it was remarked: "It is said that the Post Office Department have concluded a valid agreement with the Directors, which will enable the inhabitants of Liverpool after the first of May next, to receive their London letters, dispatched on the preceding evening, at eight on the following morning"; and also that "Notice has been given, that it is intended to dispatch a train from the station at Lime street, for the conveyance of pigs to Birmingham". Similar trains were to be dispatched each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On the Whitby and Pickering line, "A great increase has taken place in the tonnage amount of traffic and numbers of passengers conveyed, the increase in the number of passengers during the half-year had been 8,000, and the increase in goods traffic 6,000 tons". Another notice said, "On the 1st of January, the London and Birmingham Railway will be open as far as Stony Stratford, and also the Birmingham end as far as Rugby, making in the whole 77 miles of this great undertaking completed."The Bolton and Preston Railway had been decided upon, while at a meeting at Penrith of the promoters of the Lancaster and Glasgow Railway, one speaker, when alluding to the western line over Morecambe Bay to White-haven, declared that Mr. Stephenson had made a mistake of fourteen miles in computing the length of the line !
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 141, 47–48 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141047a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141047a0