The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-11-20 00:00:00

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RAILWAY No. 4.
A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 4), commencing iuthe:rownship of Wollaston,
in the Parish of Oldswinford, in the County of
Worcester, by a Junction with the intended Rail-
way No, 1, on the north side of the Turnpike Road
leading from the High Street, Stourbridge, to
Enville, and at, or near, a point in such Turnpike
Road, Li :,chains or thereabouts measured in a
north-westerly direction from the north-west
corner of the Golden Lion Inn, and terminating in
the Township of Stourbridge, and the Hamlet of
Amblecote, in the Parish of Oldswinford, in the
Counties of Worcester and Stafford, or One of
them, by a Junction with the existing line of Rail-
way belonging to the Great Western Railway
Company, and William Orme Foster, or one of
them, on the bridge which carries that Railway
over the River Stour, and which bridge is situate
on the western side .; of the High Street, at Stour-
bridge, and is the nearest Railway bridge to that
street, on the western side thereof, and which said
intended Railway No. 4, will be made, or pass
from, in, through, or into the several parishes,
townships, and extra parochial, and other places,
following, or some of them (that is to say), Wol-
laston, Stourbridge, and Oldswinford, in the County
of Worcester, and Amblecote, and Oldswinford,
in the County of Stafford.

RAILWAY No. 5.

A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway
No. 5), commencing in the Township of Upper
Swinford, in the Parish of Oldswinford, in Wie
County of Worcester, by a Junction with the
intended Railway No. 1, at its point of commence-
ment, as hereinbef ore described, and terminating in
the Township of Stourbridge, in the :Parish of Old-
swinford, in the County of Worcester, by a Junction
with the West Midland Railway of the Great Western
Railway Company, at, or near, the northern end
of the Booking Office of .the Stourbridge Station
of that Railway, and which said intended Railway
No. 6 will be made or pass from, in, through, or
into the several parishes, townships, and extra !
parochial, and other places, following, or some of
them (that is to say), Upper Swinford, Stourbridge,
and Oldswinford, all in the County of Worcester.
2. To purchase, and take by compulsion and
agreement, lands, houses, and property required
for the purposes of the intended Railways and
works; to levy tolls, rates, and duties for the use of
the intended Railways and works; to alter exist-
ing tolls, rates, and duties, and to grant exemptions
from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties.
3. To cross, stop up, alter, or -divert—whether
temporarily tor permanently—roads, railways, tram-
ways, rivers, canals, navigations, streams, sewers,
pipes, and other works. so far as may be necessary
in constructing or maintaining the said intended
Railways and Works, and to deviate laterally from
the centre line of the Railways shown upon the
deposited plans, and to deviate vertically from the
levels of the Railways shewn upon the deposited
sections, to any extent which may lie defined by
the Bill, and whether beyond the limits allowed
by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,
or otherwise.
4. To authorise the Company on the one hand,
and the Great Western Railway Company and
the London and North Western Railway Company,
or either of them, on the other hand, from time
to time, to enter into, and carry into effect, con-
tracts, agreements, and arrangements for, or with
respect to, the construction, working, use, manage-
ment, and maintenance by any, or either, of the
contracting Companies, of the said intended Rail-
ways and works, or any, or either of them, or any
part or parts thereof, respectively the supply of
rolling stock and machinery, and of officers and
' servants for the purposes of the traffic of the in-
tended Railways, the payments to be made and the
conditions to be performed with respect tosuch con-
struction, working, use, management, and mainten-
ance, .the interchange, ac counnodati on, conveyance,
and delivery of the traffic coming from, or destined
for, the respective undertakings of the contract-
ing Companies, the levying, fixing, division, and
appropriation of the tolls, rates, charges , receipts,
and reverues levied, taken or arising from that
traffic, the sums or considerations, whether aminil
or in gross, and the rents, payments, allowances,
rebates, and drawbacks to be paid, made, or
allowed by any or either of the contracting Com-
panies to the other or others of them, for or
on account of any of the matters to which the
contract, agreement, or arrangement relates, the
a-ppointment of joint committees and the exercise
of all such other powers as may be found desirable
in reference to the purposes aforesaid or any
of them.

5.. To authorise the London and North Western
Railway Company and the Great Western Rail-
way Company, or either of them, to subscribe and
contribute funds towards the making and main-
t:Lining of the intended Railways and Works, or
cir either of them, or any part or parts there-
of respectively, and to take and hold shares in the
Capital of the Company, and to guarantee to and
ror the Company, interest, dividend, annual or
ether payment on shares or stock, and the princi-
pal and interest of any loan of the Company, and
for all or any of the purposes of the Bill, to apply
their respective funds and revenues, and to raise
laore money by the creation of new shares or stock,
in their respective undertaking's, either with or
without preference, priority, or guarantee, in pay-
ment of interest or dividend, mid by berrovrinef

6. To empower the Company and all other
Companies and persons lawfully using the intended
Railways, or any or either of them, or any part or
parts thereof respectively, to run into, over, and
use with their engines, carriages, wagons, and
trucks, and their officers and servants, and for the
purposes of traffic of every description, so much
of the Railways of the Great Western Railway
Company as is situate and lies between the
Junction therewith of the intended Railway N0..1,

and the Stourbridg,e Passenger Station, of the
Great Western Railway Company, including that
Station; together with all tramways, sidings,
stations, buildings, offices, warehouses, approaches,
water-supplies; telegraphs, signals, machinery,
works, and conveniences on or connected or used
with the said portion of Railway and Station,
respectively, upon such terms and conditions
pecuniary and otherwise, and on payment of such
tolls, rates, and charges as may from time to time
be agreed upon between the Companies'interested,
or as in default of agreement, shall be determined
by the Railway Commissioners or by Arbitration,
or as may be defined by the Bill, and to require
and compel the Great Western Railway Company,
or other, the Company for the time being, owning
or working the portions of Railways and Station so.
run over and used to afford all requisite facilities
for the purpose, and to enable the Company and
all other Companies and persons as aforesaid, to
levy and receive tolls, fares, rates, and other
charges in respect of passengers, animals, and
things conveyed by them over and into 'the before
mentioned portion of Railway and Station respec-
tively, and to alter and restrict the tolls, fares,
rates, and duties, now leviable, and to fix
and determine the tolls, fares, rates,
and duties to be hereafter taken upon and
for the said portions of Railways and Station res-
pectively,Wand the works and conveniences con-
nected therewith.
7. To require the Great Western Railway
Company and :the London and North Western
Railway Company, or either of them, to book and
invoice through traffic over their Railways, or any
of them, or any part or parts thereof respectively,
to, from, and beyond the Railways of the Company
or any of them, and by through rates and fares,
and by through waggons, carriages, and trucks
and other facilities to provide 'for the full and
free interchange, passage, transmission, and ac-
commodation of the traffic to, from, over and beyond
the Railways of the Company, from, to, and over
the Railways or any part of the Railways of the
before mentioned Companies, and to require those
Companies respectively, to provide at their
Stations and Depots accommodz,tion for the book-
ing andiother clerks, and other officers and servants
of the Company, and to authorise the Company to
appoint and keep Clerks Agents and other officers
and servants at all or any of such Stations and
Depots, and to require the division of rates and
charges according to the mileage or otherwise, in
manner to be defined in or authorised by the Bill,
and the settlement of rates and of disputes by
Arbitration or by the Railway Commissioners, in
case of failure of agreement, and to make altera-
tions or reductions in the tolls, rates, and charges
authorised to be taken by the before mentioned
Companies respectively, and otherwise to provide
full and complete facilities for the passage and
transmission, reception and delivery of traffic, to,
from, over, and by the Railways of the Company
from and to, over and in, the Railways and Stations
of the before mentioned Companies respectively,
upon terms and under arrangements to be defined
in the Bill, or settled by Arbitration, or by the
Railway Commissioners.
8. To sanction and confirm any contract
agreement or arrangement between the Company
on the one hand, and the Great Western Railway
Company and the London and North Western
Railway Company, or either of them, on the other
hand, already made, or which, prior to the passing
of the Bill, may be made, respecting all or any of
the matters aforesaid or other the objects and pur-
poses of the Bill.
9. To confer upon the Company all such
powers, rights, authorities, and privileges, which
I are or may become necessary for carrying the'powers
of the Bill into execution, to vary and extinguish all
rights and privileges inconsistent with, or which
would, in any manner, impede or interfere with
the carrying into complete effect any of the objects
and purposes of the Bill, and to confer other rights
and privileges.
10. To alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to
repeal, so far as may be necessary for the purposes
of the Bill, all or some 'of the provisions of the
several local and personal Acts of Parliament
following, or some of them (that is to say), 9 & 10
Vic. caps. 204, and 231, relating to the London and
North Western Railway Company, and all other
Acts relating to or affecting that Company; 5 & 6'
Wm. IV. cap. 107-26 & 27 Vic. caps. 113 and 198
—37 &38 Vic. cap. 74; relating to the Great
Western Railway Company, and all other Acts
relating to or affecting that Company, and all
other Acts, if any, which may relate to or be
affected by the objects of the Bill.
11. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER
GIVEN that on or before the 30th day of Novem
ber instant, plans and sections of the said intended
Railways and Works, together with a Book of
Reference to such plans, and an ordnance map
with the lines of Railway delineated thereon, so
as to show their general course and direction, and
a copy of this notice as published in the London
Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection with
the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Stafford,
at his office at Stafford, in that county; and with
the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Worcester
at his office at Worcester, in that county; and that
on or before the said 30th day of November,a copy
of so much of the said plans and sections and book
of reference, as relates to :each parish or extra
parochial place in or through which the intended
Railways and Works will be made, or in which
any lands or houses intended to be taken are
situate, and also a copy of this notice, published
as aforesaid, will be deposited for public inspection
in the case of each such parish, with the Parish
Clerk thereof at his residence, and in the case of
each extra parochial place, with the Parish Clerk
of some Parish immediately adjoining thereto, at
his residence.
12. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO
GIVEN that on or before the 21st day of Decem-
ber next, printed copies of the Bill will be deposited
in the Private Bill Office of,the House of Commons.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1875.
CHARLES. W. COLLIS, Stourbridge, Solicitors
WILLIAM TOOGOOD, 16, Parliament for the
Street, Westminster, Bill.

TOOGOOD AND BALL, 16, Parliament Street,
Westminster,
Parliamentary Agents.

COX,
SAMUEL

IIAGLEY ROAD,
STOURBRIDGE.

SEEDSMAN, FLORIST, & LANDSCAPE

GARDENER.

lisnmATEs FOR LAYING OUT GARDENS.

PLANTATIONS, &c.,

OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

A Fine Seflection of
ROSES, FRUIT TREES, FLOWERING PLANTS,