1834.J 



THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



365 



South Western. — The accounts of this Company showed a slight increase 

 in the traffic, but the savings in the working expenditure had been counter- 

 acted by the great increase in parochial rates. The dividend was 30s. per 

 share for the half year. The main features of the discussion which took 

 place were relating to the parochial rates. It seemed to be felt that no 

 other mode of checking this oppression existed than a combined application 

 of the Railway Companies to the legislature for an amendment of the present 

 law in relation to the subject. 



Greenwich Railway Company. — After all the meetings chronicled in our 

 last, and the adoption of the mileage principle, a final meeting upset the 

 whole proceedings, and the question of toll remains in statu quo, the com- 

 mittee of inquiry being summarily dismissed. The Directors have, however, 

 since offered to the Croydon Company, a modified toll of id. for each first 

 class passenger, 3d. for each second class passenger, and 2d. for each third 

 class passenger, which has, we believe been refused, the other companies 

 trusting to the eft'ect of the Bricklayers' Arms branch to bring the Greenwich 

 to their senses. 



Manchester and Birmingham Railway. — The dividend recommended here 

 was 15s, per share. There had been an increase in the income, and a dimi- 

 nution in the expenditure. The Directors had been making some experi- 

 ments with cheap fares, which had fully answered their anticipations, and 

 they were about to apply the principle to a greater extent. 



Maryjiort and Carlisle Railway — This line is not yet finished, and the 

 secretary, a Mr. Mitchell, who was a country school-master, having ousted 

 the engineer, has installed himself in that capacity too, so that the profession 

 is likely to see some strange performances. The traffic, and the whole con- 

 cern is in a wretched condition, hut the reports published do not admit of 

 particulars being given. 



Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock Sf Ayr Railway. — The passenger traffic 

 is reported to have remained stationary, the goods to have advanced. The 

 Kilmarnock branch was opened on the 4th of April ; an arrangement with 

 the competing canal company had been effected. The subject of steam boats 



in connexion with the railway, was recommended to the proprietors, but 

 nothing effective seems to have been done. The proceedings principally 

 relate to this subject, and the means of effecting a saving in the working 

 expenses. 



Glasgow, Paisley §■ Greenock Railway. — The proceedings of this Company 

 at their half-yearly meeting were much the same as those of the preceding. 

 Steam boats had already been taken into connexion with the Company, but 

 further measures were urged. 



West London Railway. — The works on this line were reported at the 

 half-yearly meeting to be going on well, and the opening is promised for 

 November. The total disbursements are £174,967. 



London and Croydon Railway. — The half-yearly meeting of this Company 

 was marked by a long exposition from Mr. Wilkinson of the conduct of the 

 Croydon Board as to the toll transactions, and the announcement of the 

 Greenwich offer alluded to above. The traffic had of course, in the state of 

 the toll question, shown no improvement. 



Manchester and Leeds Railway. — At this meeting a general increase in the 

 traffic was announced, as also an arrangement with the Calder & Kebble 

 Canal Company, which had been competing for the traffic. A complaint was. 

 made here also of a great increase id the parochial rates. The dividend was 

 at the rate of 5i per cent, per annum, and the works on the extension line 

 and Halifax branch are reported as going on well, the Halifax branch to be 

 finished in the spring. Surveys have also been made for branches to Hud- 

 dersfield, Ashton, Bury and Bradford, which are likely to be prosecuted. 

 This company, it seems, is threatened with a competition by the way of the 

 Sheffield & Manchester from Penistone to Barnsley. 



Yarmouth and Norwich Railway. — This company have expended £49,072, 

 and the works are represented as in a forward state, so as to get the line 

 open by June next year. It seems that the estimates are likely to be ex- 

 ceeded by £12,500, in consequence of some landowners' claims which the 

 Company has been obliged to satisfy; at this meeting measures were taken 

 for promoting a line from Norwich to Brandon. 



TABULAR STATEMENT FOR THE HALF YEAR, DECEMBER 31, 1842, TO JUNE 30, 1843. 



nwich Railway received for foot passengers £497, and toll £4,746. - Grand Junction paid Liverpool and Manchester Railway £8.016, and for 

 rent £2.093. a Leeds and Selby locomotive power is included in York and North Midland. * Brighton paid Croydon ami Greenwich Railway for 

 toll £11,10!'. s Northern and Eastern paid Eastern Counties Railway for loll £3,749. It should be abserved that the office expences cannot be sepa- 

 rated. e London and Birmingham paid Aylesbury Railway for rent £1.250. In addition to the total outlay there is the sum of £13,H66 carried to the 

 depreciation fund. '■ Locomotive power not kept distinct. 8 Great Western paid Bristol and Exeter and Cheltenham Railway for rent £34,484. hi 

 addition to the outlay £5.000 is carried to the depreciation fund. 



9 The carrying and office or general department cannot well be separated in the South Western Company. 10 The accounts of the Mary pool and 

 Carlisle Company do not allow further information to be given. xl Part .of the Glasgow and Ayr, and Glasgow & Greenock being a joint line worked in 

 common, it is impossible to divide the items of expenditure. lS The Croydon accounts being divided into a toll account snd a traffic account, the table 

 of income cannot be divided. 13 The Hartlepool accounts have not been published. 



