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NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.
26th September 1855. Sin—I have no doubt your correspondent, "A Sufferer," has been incon- venienced as he describes.
This railway lies between the great systems of the London and North- Western on the one side, and the Midland on the other. The train from Burton has to receive passengers from Birmingham and Leicester, and at Tutbury from Derby ; at which place the train is de- pendent on others from Nottingham, &c. At tittoxeter it divides ; and the passengers for Macclesfield and Man- chester proceed by the Churnet line to the former place, and those for Liver- pool, Chester, &c., by the Derby and Crewe line to Crewe. At both these places they have to catch London and North-Western trains. Not only, therefore, is the fixing of the trains difficult, but without an un- erring accuracy in the working, which has never been attained, or a very friendly latitude at these junctions, the disappointments alluded to by "A Sufferer" are sometimes unavoidable, as these companies have to work in conjunction. The peculiarity of the position of the North Staffordshire Railway, of which this is an illustration, furnished one of the prominent grounds for the bill for amalgamating that Company with the London and North-Western, which a Committee of the House of Commons so summarily, and I think so unwisely, rejected in the last session.
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