The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.

The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at the Euston Station—
Mr R. Moon, the chairman, presided:
The CHAIRMAN said they had only one bill to
sabmit—it was No. 12 on their list, for making rail•
ways from Haverstock-hill, Hampstead, to the
Charing-cross Railway at Hungerford, and for
making new streets from Tottenham-court-road to
the Strand. The bill had been modified in com-
mittee, and its title had been changed to " The
North Western and Charing-cross Railway." The
bill authorised the company and the London and
North Western and South Eastern Railway Com-
panies to enter into traffic and working arrange-
ments. The powers wore permissive to make such
agreements as might be necessary for the inter-
change and working of the traffic over the new line
between the railway and station near Euston-squae
and the junction with the Charing-cross line at
Hungerford. He then moved a formal resolution
approving the bill.

Colonel BOURNE seconded the motion.
Mr ROLLS said he understood the powers were
permissive to make agreements for working the
traffic, but he wished to know whether they were
to subscribe anything towards the new under-
taking.
The CHAIRMAN said they would have to subscribe
£2,500 if the company got the bill. There were to'
be 12 directors in the new company, the subscrip-
tion of £2,500 was to qualify four directors of the
London and North Western on the new board;
there would be four directors of the South Eastern
Railway on it, and four directors to represent the
independent parties promoting the bill, thus making
the 12 directors.

A formal resolution approving the bill was carried
unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said the other bill remaining for
the consideration of the proprietors was a bill for

the completion of the inner circle railways north of
the Thames, extending from their Kensington Sta-
tion to Trinity-square, Tower-hill. The bill was
not yet ready, and it would therefore be necessary
to adjourn the meeting to Wednesday, 20th inst.
In reply to questitins it was explained that the
North Western and Charing-cross Railway was
originally proposed to run from Haverstock-hill,
forming junctions with the Midland, the London
and North Western, and the Metropolitan Railways;
but those proposed junctions would have involved
complications and considerable expense. The com-
mittee on the bill had simplified the northern end
of the proposed line by cutting cff a portion of it,

and sanctioning a convenient junction with the
London and North Western Railway near the
Euston Station, so that passengers on their way
from Paris to Manchester and Liverpool, and vice
versa, would be enabled by means of the new line
to pass to and from their railway to the South
Eastern Railway without change of carriage. Ttie
proposed railway would also form junctions with
the southern portion of the " inner circle line"
passing under the upper surface of the Thames
Embankment, near llungerford. With reference
to this point, Mr Stewart, the secretary of the Lon-
don and North Western Company. in his letter to
the Board of Trade in January last, stated that—
" If in consideration of the great stream of traffic
east and west it should be deemed expedient to
form another line of communication in that direction,
so as to accommodate the population on the north
bank of the Thames, as that on the south bank is
accommodated by the lines of the South Western
and South Eastern companies, I am authorised to
say that the directors of this company will be pre-
pared to co-operate for such an object in the manner
already indicated." And in question 243, page 25,
of the Report of the Joint Committee of the Lords
and Commons, Mr. Stewart stated in evidence,
with regard to "An extension from the
Kensington Station in the direction of Westminster,
and so along the bank of the Thames, I think it
would be very important both locally and as an ex-
tension of the London and North-Western and the
Great Western systems." The Metropolitan Dis-
tricts (No. 2) Bill was now before Lord Stanley's
committee for completing the portion of the inner
circle line from Kensington to Trinity-square,
Tower-hill, the other portions being comprised in
the Metropolitan Railway, and its eastern and
western extensions.
The meeting then adjourned to Wednesday, the
20th inst.

SOUTH-EASTERN.
The adjourned Wharncliffe meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel,
Londcn..bridge—the Hon. J. Byng in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said they had been obliged to ad•
journ twice in consequence of the bill not being
ready. It involved no outlay on their part, but re-
quired the assent of the proprietors.
Mr. Toogood, the solicitor, read the heads of a bill
for making a railway from the London and North
Western Railway, near the Euston station, to the
Charing-cross Railway. It authorised agreements
between the proposed company and the London and
North Western, the Charing-cross, and the South
Eastern Railway Companies, for the maintenance,
use, and working of all or any part of the railway,
for the interchange and working of traffic, and for
the division and apportionment of the receipts.
Mr. ADAMS said, as the bill involved no change on
the South Eastern, and as it authorised a direct line
of communication between the London and North
Western Railway and their line at Charing•cross,
he thought it must be of great advantage to the
South Eastern Company in facilitating continental
and other traffic between their line and the London
and North Western Railway.
In reply to Mr. A. Beattie, it was stated that the
length of the new line was about two miles.
Oa the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a formal rest)_
lotion approving the bill was carried unanimously,
and the proceedings terminated.