A REMARKABLE instance of the wonder. ful resources of some of the Railway corporations of England was afforded the other day, On the 17th of August Inst, a quarter of an hour after the Inst train had passed over it, a viaduct at Liandalas in North Wales, on the main line of the London and North Western Railway to Holyhend, suddenly gave way. The little river Dulas, which flowed beneath it, had been swollen by x sudden flood, and surged through the narrow openings of the old structure, consisting of seron arches of masonry with embankments at each end. At about four o'clock in the afternoon the bridge, unable to stand any longer the pressure, was entirely swept away and the traffic completely stopped. After the subsidence of the flood a temporary wooden bridge was put up, and the line opened again for traffic within seven days. Meanwhile works for the permanent restoration of the stractare were taken in hand, Plans were made for a new bridge which it was decided should be of steel, and should be made at the Company's works ut Crewe. The old foundations were removed and new piers built, The steel for the bridge bad to be manu. factured, rolled, and worked up. The new edifice, like the old, was to consist of seven spans, but each of increased proportions, and requiring no less than forty girders, ench thirty-two fect in length, It was determined that the parts for ench of these should be rolled in one length. This unusual operation was performed within seven days, and the entire of the metal work for the structure ready for fixing was in thnt short spee of time converted, rolled and put together. At the spot where the accident occurred, the new piers were meanwhile being built, with the result that on the 17th of September, n few hours under one mouth from the time of the accident, the new viaduct, superior in every way to the old, was opened for public traffic. The fact is worthy of being recorded even so far away as China, as affording a remarkable instance of what energy and ability, aided by the resources of so gigantic an organisation as the London and North Western Railway, can effect. Our little line to Woosung was shut up in a sulky fit by @ superannnated official, In England every nerve was strained to prevent even a partial interference with trafic. The number of passengers carried duily between Shanghai and Woosung was an indication of the need of communication, yet all these peoples' interests were sacrificed to the whim of one man.
Tt is no wonder when so great power for evil is permitted to be centred in a single individual, that China should still remain at a standstill, @utports.
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