18 DECEMBER 1841, Page 8

Considerable alarm was occasioned this morning by the 'report that

a serious accident had occurred on the Brighton Railway Irst night. Upon inquiry, it turns out that the accident occurred at the Sydenham station on the Croydon Railway ; where the last down-train, when stop- ping to land its passengers, was run into by a ballast-train, which had got upon the wrong line of rails. Luckily, the passengers escaped with some severe contusions ; and no loss of life occurred, or is anticipated.