The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-19 00:00:00

MXTROPOLITAN RAILWAY PROJECTS.

The Parliamentary Notices which bare made
their appearance sine. our first article on this
subject disclose several projects of importance.
First of all it may be mentioned that the London
aid North Western Company, in an omnibus bill,
chiefly relating to minor matters, solicit from par-
liament power to make a great improvement in the

sntranoesto the Euston station. Every one knows

that at present that station is only accessible
through some back streets, amid which the great
Doric portico is lost to sight. The company ask for
power to op in a new street from their grand
entrance through the gardens of Euston•square to
Endsleigh-street, whenoe they will obtain a direct
road through the lines of squires and streets which
lead from Euston-road to Holborn. This will be a
public improvement, if it can be effected without '
local inconvenience.

The " Metropolitan Railway Company" ask for
power to extend their line at both ends. At their
western extremity they seek to improve their Rag-
ware-road station, and to make an additional line
from their proposed station in Conduit-street,
Paddington (opposite the front of the Great Wes-
tern Hotel), under Kensington-gardens to Kensing-
ton Pabee. Near to the palace and Kensington
High-street they propose to make • station ; and
from thence, turning towards the south-east, they

propose to join to the Cromwell-road, near the site
of the Exhibition Palace, and into Brompton-road,
where they purpose to have another station at
Alfred-place West. The ultimate object of this
route must be to connect the line with the Victoria
station and its Battersea-bridge ; but this is not at
present proposed.
At its eastern extremity the Metropolitan propose

to extend their line from Finsbury Pavement into
the Miouried, ending at a point close to America-
'glare and the Blackwall Railway. They do not
mak, however, to communicate either with that
line, or with the North London or Great Pastern,

leaving it apparently to those lines to form comma-
piestious with the Metropolitan. It cannot, how-
ever, but be observed that without such communi-

satires the line of the Metropolitan is incomplete.
This railway was originally granted to relieve the
Alves of the Great Western and other railway
traffic, and extensions which do not subserve that
object of making the Metropolitan a relief line for
Ms heavy traffic of London are comparatively
insworthy of encouragement.
an independent project in connexion with the
Metropolitan is a line of underground railway
from the station at the top of Bakerstreet to tie
station of the Ranipsteed Railway in the Finchley-
mad. This would be apparently a useful line, in.
such as it would carry into the heart of the
Oily the passenger traffic of a populous suburb.
It is, however, subject to a great local difficulty.
Whilst it would be otherwise easily constructed, it

Xao to pans between North Bank itod South BU3k,

adjaesit to the Regent's-part, under the course of
the Regent's Cana, which happens at that point
to be very much below the leveL It is evident
from the character of the parliamentary notices
that the engineer has felt this difficulty ; and be
will be extremely clever if he can successfully
encounter it.

A more ambitions proposal than any we have yet
. . . .

aotioed is that of the "Metropolitan Grand tnion
Railway." It proooses a line from the West Lon-
don Railway at Kensington, through Chelsea aid
Pimlico to the Victoria station, with which it
connects ; thence to Westminster, and ayailiig
itself, apparently, of the new Thames embankment,
it proposes to carry a line along it to Blackfriars,
thence under the new street to Cannon-street, and
so on to Cooper's-row, near Tower-hilL Here it
will form connexions with the Blaokwall, and will
throw back an underground line to connect with'
the Metropolitan at Finsbury. It also proposes to
pas (we presume under) the Thames from Tower
. hilt, and connect itself with the South Eastern
and Brighton Railways in Bermondsey. Frain
Kensington it is also to throw back branches to
join tie Metropolitan and Great Western at Pad-
dington ; so that it may be said that most of the

peat railways will be touched by this scheme.
The conception is a great one, but it may be moat
feared that the difficulties of execution would be
against the plan, and it is quite e►vions that a
low 4vci line on the river shore could not tow*
• the high level lines at Charing-cross, Blackfriare,
and Cannon-at:est.

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More moderate metropolitat projects are pro-
posed by the North Loudon, in the form of a new
dank at Poplar for the convenience chiefly of their
seal traffic ; and by the Regent's Canal Company,
who propose to construct an improved basin st
. Shailwell and a Feininger and steam boat pier
■pan the Thames. The latter object has for some
years been a favourite design of the Regent'. Canal
Company. Perhaps there is lees to be said in
favour of the North London proposal, as the line
has ao.eea to the irictoria Docks which afford every
facility for coal traffic at a point where the
navigation of the river is lees liable to be in-
terfered with. The North London, moreover, in-
trades at Poplar upon the territory of the Blackwell,
and it would be quite, as well for the intereets of
both that these two important lies should interfere
with each other as little impossible. Another dock
protium.] for which notices have been issued relates
to the opposite side of the Thames. It has for its
object the amalgamation of the Commercial and
Greed Surrey Docks iuto one company, under the
tale of the " Surrey Commercial Doak Company,"
and the new company seeks for additional powers
to make new works. It may be mentioned, also,
that the London and South Western, alarmed, ap-
parently, at the proposal of an independent corn,
piny to form a new line from Kensington to Rich
mond, have given notice, on their own account, of
a line iu the same direction. It may be anticipated,
therefore, that a new line will be made from the
West London Junction at Kensington to Richmond,
the only question for parliament being whether it
shall be made by the South Western or by an inde-
pendent company.
With the exception of a notice under the head of
" Courts of Justice Concentration," we believe we
have now exhausted the propositions relating to
ibs Metropolis. The "Courts of Justice Commit-
fellation "is not a railway. It is a parliamentary
notice fora bill to take the property extending from
Bell-yard, Fleet-street, to Cleutents-inn, and back-
wards from the Strand to Lincoln's inn, fur the
construction of new courts of law and equity. This
important project is deserving of separate notice.
We may be courant with desiring hare that the
"courts of justice" when concentrated may go at
somewhat quicker speed than they do now, even
Omagh they may not acquire railroad pace.

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