The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-10-04 00:00:00

BRIDPORT RAILWAY COMPANY.

AGREEMEN I' WITH THE GREAT WESTERN.
The half-yearly ordinary general meeting of the
Bridport Railway Company was held at the Bull Hotel
Assembly Rooms, on Wodnewaisy, at noon. After the
disposal of the general business, a special general
meeting was held for the purpose of authorising a
working agreement between the company and the
Great Western Railway. The Chairman of the c .m-
-pany (W. Swatridge, Rai., of Maiden Newton)
presided, supported by Richard Francis Roberts, Req.,
acd William Henry Chick, Esq., Directors; and N. bd.
140_810(1. Esq., secretary of the company.
The Directors, through their secretary, presentei
their wo)uan; for the half-year ending the 30ta June,
1881, and were pleased to be enabled to recommend
the payment of a aflVideDd Of a per Mat. OD the
Preference Shares, and ls. 91. per share on Ordinary
Shares. The accounts were adopted. The shareholders
present at the meeting were as follows :—Messrs. F.
W. Gundry, W. Rummell, (1 A. Samson, Roberts
(London), C. G. Nantes, C. Felstone, S. Ackerman,
A. Foots, G. Symonds (Dorchester), W. Colfox, C.
Edmunds, T. H. Edmunds Major Groves, &c.
With regard to the speCial meeting, the Directors
stated in their report that they have contracted for the
purchase of the beans and gardens south of the station
at Bridport, to enable this company to extend their
line, so that the trains may run into the station, and
avoid the delay ititlier•o caused by having to detach
the engine before running the passenger carriages up
to the platform and the works are to be proceeded
with at once. The Directors have arranged to issue
£4,000 of the Preference Shares, authorised by the
Bridport Railway Act, 1879, at Li per cent., and they
have been placed at par, and with this amount they
will pay the costa of the works at the Bridport station,
the purchase money of the houses and gardens, and
the balance of the costa remaining unpaid in relation
to the.Aut of 1879.

No further steps have been taken with reference to
the proposed extension to the Harbour, but there is
still ample time t ) carry it out under the Act of 1379,
which authorises it-
The Bicatraav then read an agreement for the
future working of the Bridport line by the Great
Western Company ineluding conditions for alterations
at the existing stations, az.
The toll ,vriag resolution being put by the °Hammes,
warn carried:—" That the tweement now produced,
made by this Company and the Great Western
B.ailway Company, with respect to the use, working.
management, and maintenanoe by the G. W.R.C. of
the undertaking of the company, and the other pur-
poses mentioned or referred to in the said agreement,
the same is hereby approved, subject to the approval
of the Railway Commissioners, and to any alterations
which they may require, being assented to by the
directors."
Mr. Gum finsonns took exoeptioz to the agree-
ment, commenting upon the intention of spending so
much money on extending the platform, &c. when when the
line would no doubt be eventually extended to the
Rant Bridge.
The decision now arrived at, is an egresineut to be
worked by the G.W. R. C. for • term of 10 years.