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 Making. gross weight of ono Hundred and ftty one tons, (besdes the tender, with its coke, water &c With this enormous load the Sampson moved off, as we have already stated, at ten minutes past eight and proceeded to the foot of Huyton inclined plane ut the rate of about twenty miles an hour It was assisted up the inclined plane, by three other en- zines (the Mdrs, the Mercury, and the Arroo,) and arrived at the top in 3S minutes afer leaving the station, as the assisting engines pushed behind the lead whilst the Sampson tugged in front it was easy (by observing where the connecting chains were tight and where slacl to ascertain what portion of the work was done by each; md it was found that the Sampson generally drew sixteen wagons (the gross weight of which would be about 80 tons.) On arriving at the top of the inclined plane the Sampson stopped five minutes to take in water, and then pro- ceeded to Parkside, where it arrived at 27 minutes past nne stopped there eight minutes to water, and arrived in Manchester at sixteen minutes before eleven. The whole time of the journey was conse- quently two hours and thirty four minutes and de. ducting the thirteen minutes employed in taking in water, the net time of travelling was t,co hours and f,oenty one minutes From the performance of samp- son the inclined plane, dobt is entertained that it would draw 200 tons perfect level railway The quantity of coke consumed by the Sampson in this extraordinary journey was 1876 lbs (12 cwt. qr. 4 lbs (being not quite third of pound per ton per mile. Adding tc this the coke consumed by the three engines which assisted up the inclined plane, the whole expense of fael would not amount to twenty shillngs. +--,-