19th September 1865.
Sin—You deserve the thanks of the public for your advice in last week's Spectator, that "Railway managers should concentrate their attention upon their own district." The "Churnet line," to which you allude as a " bur- I den" on the North Staffordshire, is rendered such in a great measure by the faulty arrangements of the trains. Thus, at Burton-on-Trent, where the Midland joins the North Staffordshire it has been long the practice for the trains of the latter company to stare just before the arrival of trains from Birmingham.
Passengers, who would have found the Churnet line much more convenient, do not choose to wait three hours at Burton for the departure of the next train ; so continue their route on the Midland line to Derby, and proceed thence to their destination as best they may.
If the advantages of other branches be thrown away by the directors of the North Staffordshire as surely as those of the "Churnet line," it is not sur- prising that there is "no dividend."
A Suenrann.
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