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Carlisle Patriot - 18 May 1844
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

It is rumoured that the opening of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, in June, Mr. GLYN, chairman
of the London and Birmingham line, and other influential gentlemen, will leave the metropolis in the
morning by a special train, and dine in Newcastle in the afternoon.

GREAT RAILWAY PERFORMANCES. - It is intended to have a splendid opening of the Newcastle and
Darlington Railway, on the 18th of June; and on that occasion, it is intended that Mr. GLYN and
other influential gentlemen connected with railways shall leave London in the morning by a special
train, and reach Newcastle in time for dinner. - Leeds Mercury.

RAILWAY OVER THE MENAI STRAITS. - We noticed in our last the project of carrying the Chester and
Holyhead Railway over the Menai bridge, but we now learn that the landed proprietors in the vicinity
oppose the railway, and it is therefore probable the passage across the straits will have to be made
at the Britannia rock, and will involve, at least, two arches of 350 feet span. This will be the
most gigantic railway work ever undertaken. - Birmingham Journal.

YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS. - The new lines of railway in Yorkshire at present projected, are the
following: - From Leeds to Harrogate and Thirsk; the Bradford and Seeds (Valley) line; the Bradford
and Leeds (Valley) line; the Bradford and Leeds (Short) line; the Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds and
Leeds line; the Dewsbury and Leeds line; the Bolton, Percy and Harrogate line; the various branch
lines from the Leeds and Manchester Railway; in connection with the Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway, in connection with the Huddersfield Canal Navigation; the Lincoln and Wakefield Railway;
and the York and Scarborough Railway. These ten new lines will require for their construction about
five million sterling.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE
BOARD OF TRADE. - This report, for 1843, has just made its appearance, with a copious appendix of
statistical matter. It appears that there has been a beautiful illustration of the safety of
railways under good management. About 24,000,000 persons have been carried an average distance of
fifteen miles each, and out of them only one passenger has lost his life, namely, on the North
Midland Railway, on the 12th of January, 1843. The state of the accidents for the last four years
stand thus: -

Killed. Injured.
1840 last five months of ........................... 22 131
1841 for the year ..................................... 24 72
1842 ....................................................... 5 14
1843 ....................................................... 3 3

These accidents comprehend all sorts of a public nature. It appears that 94½ miles of railway were
inspected and opened during 1843.

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. - Mr. EASTCOURT appeared at the bar of the House of Commons on
Friday night, and announced that various amendments had been made by the House of Lords in the
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill; that their lordships desired a conference with the Commons on
the subject matter of the said amendments and had named that day for the purpose. Several hon.
members were thereupon appointed to confer with their lordships accordingly, and on their return at
the expiration of a few minutes, Mr. ESCOURT said that the conference had been conducted by the Duke
of RICHMOND on the part of the House of Lords; that the Commons' deputation had delivered their
reasons for disagreeing with the amendments, and had left them with their lordships for
consideration. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the undermentioned Peers were appointed to
manage the conference on the part of their lordships respecting the amendments made by the House of
Lords in the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Bill, namely: - The Duke of RICHMOND, the Earl of DEVON,
Earl of BROWNLOW, the Bishop of Durham, Lord PENSHURST (Viscount STRANGFORD.) As soon as it was
announced at the bar by the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod that the managers on the part of the House
of Commons were ready to hold the conference, their lordships proceeded to the room appointed for
that purpose. After an absence of about ten minutes, the managers of the conference on behalf of the
House of Lords returned, when the Duke of RICHMOND acquainted the house that they had met the
messengers of the House of Commons, and had received a statement of the reasons which precluded them
from adopting certain portions the Commons had assented; whereupon the noble duke moved that their
lordships should not persist in those amendments objected to.

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It seems some of the proof reading was not up to scratch, particularly in the section about the
Yorkshire Railways!
 
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