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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN.
The adjourned Wharncliffa meeting of this corn
pany was held yesterday at the Euston Station—

Mr R. Moon, the chairman, presided.

The CHAIRMAN said they had only one bill to
submit--it was No. 12 on their list, for making rail.

ways from Haverstock-hill, Hampstead, to the
Charing•oross 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
b.ll authorised the company and the London and
North Western and South Eastern Railway Com-

panics to enter into traffic and working arrange-
ments. The powers were 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 tour 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 questi'ms it was explained that the
North Western and Charing-close Railway was
originally proposed to run from ilaverstock-hill,
forming junctions with the Midland, the London
and North Western, and the Metropolitan Railways;
but those proposed junctions would have involved
complications end considerable expanse. The com-
mittee on the had simplified the northern end
of the proposed line by cutting elf 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
verse, would be enabled by means of the new line
to pass to and from their railway to the South
Eastern Rhilway without change of carrip-ga. The
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 Hungerfords With reference
to this point, Mr Stewart, the secretary of the Lon-
don and Not th Western Company, in his letter to
the Board of Trade in January last, stated that—
" If in consideration of the great stream of traffic
exist and west it should be deemed expedient to
form another line of communication in that direction,
Ho 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
arid Commons, Mr. Stewart stated in evidence,
with regard to t‘ 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-equare,
Tower-hill, the other portions being comprised in
the Metropolitan Railway, and its eastern and
‘veetern extensions.
Tie meeting then adjourned to Wednesday, the
20th inst.