The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS.

About 400 notices of intended applications to Par-
liament in the ensuing session have been given for
railway, canal, and dock bills, all connected with
railways. Plans and sections have been deposited
at the Board of Trade fur 354 pojEcts-d ucw rail-
ways aad Nti' bLing 41) those depo-
sited last year, and it is believed the largest number
since the year 1616. In the last session of Parlia-
ment it was found difficult to get through the work,
and it appeared that several bills had been delayed
very late in the session for want of chairmen of com.
mittees to consider and report on their merits. The
railway business fur next session promises to be
much heavier than last session ; at least the bills
are more numerous, and probably not so easily
shelved as the 30 schemes for the metropolitan rail-
ways were last session.
Notices for 27 bills have been given for lines and
junction lines for the metropolis and the suburbs,
but none of them equal in magnitude to any of
those of last session. The Metropolitan District
Company (part of the inner circle) merely propose
to divide their authorised double junction lino with
the West London Itailavay, from Kensington to
Fulham, and to purchase land, houses, and property
for the purpose. The East London (Thames Tunnel
line) have come forward with a modified scheme
for constructing a railway from the Great Eastern
at Westaplace, Bethnal-green, passing through the
Thames Tunnel to the London and Brighton Rail-
way at Deptford, with a branch to the South
Eastern Railway, and also to tho Great Eastern at
liverpool.street to Whitechapel, and to the London
and Blackwall Railway at Mile-end, Old Town.
The Eastern Metropolitan propose to construct a
railway from Aldgate to Mile-end; the Metropolis
tan and St. John'sswood Railway Company ask for
power to extend their line to Willowsroad, Hamp-
stead ; the Waterloo and Whitehall Company
propose to make a railway from Great Scotland-
yard, passing under the Thames to the Waterloo
station of the London and South Western
Railway Company. The London, Chatham, and
Dover are very moderate this time; they propose to
make a junction line from Lambeth to the London
and Brighton Railway at the west end of Denmark.
hill tunnel, a junction railway from their Peckham
line at Camberwell to the London and Brighton
Railway at Hanover.parkaroad, to oblige the Crys-
tal Palace and South London Company to aban-
don the construction of the portion of their line
from Camberwell to Denmark-hill, to make a
junction line at Beckenham, and to abandon the
whole of their Bickley and other authorised junc-
tions. They also propose to enable the London
and Souths Western Company to work over and use
with their engines and carriages the railways,
sidings, and stations of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Company in Surrey, Middlesex, and London,
on such terms as may be agreed upon: The Tot•
tenham and Hampstead Junction Company propose
to make railways from Gordon-house-lane to the
Metropolitan Extension of the Great Eastern Com.
pany at Tottenham ; from Tatter.down-lane to the
Alexandra-park, near the southern end of the main
building. The North London Company propose to
make a railway from Islington to near the toll-gate,
Highgate-archway, and theses to the Alexandra.
park Extension lines of the Edgware, Highgate,
and London Railway at Hornsey. A company pro.
poses a line from the Edgware, Highgate, and
London Rail way at Hornsey to the North London
Railway at Islington. The Edgware, Highgate,
and London Company propose to make junctions
with the Tottenham and Hampstead Railway from
Crouch-hill to the Holloway-road, and also at
Hornsey. A company proposes to make a railway
from Wood-green to Winchmoreshill and Enfield;
and so do the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany, extending it from Enfield to Hertford,
A company has given notice of a line from
the London and North-Western, near Willes-
den, to Harrow and Rickmansworth. New com-
panies propose to make railways from Acton to
Brentford, from Acton to Twickenham, from Balham
to Brixton and Clapham, from King's-cross to Is'.
lington and Limehouse, and from Chalk-farm station
to Finchley, Hendon, Totteridge, and Barnet. The
London and Blackwall Company intend to extend
their line to The London and Brighton
Company propose junction lines at Rotherhithe.
The Metropolitan and South London Company pro-
pose a line from Little Moorfields, passing through
the Thames Tunnel to R9therbithe, and branches
to the Great Eastern Railway at Bethnal-green and
Tap-street ; and branches at Rotherhithe to the
North Rent, South Eastern, and London and
Brighton Railways. Two high-level branch rail-
ways to the Crystal Palace are proposed from the
existing Crystal Palace line. A company proposes
to make railways from the Great Western and
Brentford Railway at Isleworth to the Wimbledon
and Croydon at Melton and Wimbledon, on the
mixed guage. These projects appear to be suffi-
ciently numerous at least for one Session, within a
circle of about 10 miles of the General Post-office.

The most important projects in the list of notices
for new railways are the Lancashire and Yorkshire
and Great Eastern Junction ; the Lceds, North
Yorkshire and Durham; the London, Bucks, and
East G!oucestershire ; and the South Wales and
Great Western Direct. The Lancashire and York-
shire and Great Eastern Junction is promoted by
those two companies jointly for the construction of
a railway from the Great Eastern Railway at Long
Stanton to the Askerne branch of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway at Askerne, with branches
to Somersham, Ramsey, Standground, Bourn, Slea-
ford, Blyton, Kirksandall, Thorpe, and Burgwaliis.
This is nearly identical with the Great Eastern
Northern Junction scheme of last Session, which
was rejected by committees of both Houses as
being a competing line to the loop lino and
branches of the Great Northern Railway ; but at
the same time they inserted facility clauses in the
Great Northern Bill for the conveyance of coals and
other trLflic to and from the (heat Eastern Rail-
way. Those facilities not being considered suffi•

cient by the Great Eastern Company for the de•
velopment of the northern traffic between Lancashire
and the Eastern Counties district, the project has
been revived, and will no doubt be again opposed
by the Great Northern Company. The Leeds, North
Yorkshire, and Durham is promoted by an "inde-
pendent company" for constructing a railway from

Leeds to Hartlepool, with branches to Sc.arborough,
Farndale, Wortley, Armley, and other places, and
junctions with the North Eastern, Stockton and

Darlington, and other railw iys in the northeastern
district. This scheme will be strenuously opposed
by the North Eastern Company—but it is supposed
that running powers over the existing railways
similar to those granted for 50 years to the Great
Northern Company over the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway would obviate the neces-
sity of making those two competing railways, at a
cost of £3,000,000 or £4,000,000. The London,
Bucks, and East Gloucestershire is promoted by an
" independent company" to make railways from
the East Gloucestershire railway at Yarnton, to
Risborougb, Eliesborough, Rickmanswortb, \Vat%
ford, Stanmore,and Willesden to the Midland Rail-
way at Henden, with, branches to Wolvercot, Great
Kimble, Watford, and other places. The project ap-
pears to be intended as a competing line from the
Midland Railway to Oxford, Cheltenham, Glocester
and Bristol. The South Wales and Great Western
direct is promoted by an" independent company" to
make a railway from the South Wales Railway near
Chepstow across the Severn by means of a bridge to
the Great,Western Railway at Wootton Bassett. The

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Birkenhead and Liverpool is a 'Reject for. making— a
railway from the Birkenhead line at Bebbington, by
means of a tunnel under the Mersey into Toxtetla.
park, Liverpool, and thence to the Liverpool central
station. The South Wales Junction is a project for
constructing a railway from the Bristol and South
Wales Usion Railway, by means of a tunnel through
rock under the river Severn, to the South Wales
Railway near Portskewet. A similar tunnel project
for next session is for a railway from the Blackwell
and North London Railways at Limehouso, passing
under the Thames to Blackwell Point and the Green.
with-marshes to the North Kent Railway
at Charles
ton. The other important engineering works to be
submitted next session are the high-level railway
bridges over the Firth of Forth and the Firth of