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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday, in Lord Stanley's committee on the proposed
metropolitan and suburban railways, the bill of the London,
Chatham, and Dover, for diversions of existing railways at
or near Battersea, called the Battersea works, and for cer-
tain railways and alterations of authorised railways of an
aggregate length of three miles at Herne-hill, was passed.
The bill for the Battersea extensions of the London and
South• Western was rejected. The southern works section of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, for a widening
for a length of one mile from the Wandsworth-road to Shep-
herd's-lane, Brixton, was subsequently opened by Mr. Davi-
son and Mr, Round. Mr. Adair has been appointed chair-
man of the second committee on metropolitan railways, His
committee will meet on Monday, and take up the metropo-
litan Railway (Notting-hill and Brompton Extension), and
Metropclitan and St. John's-wood Railways. Mt. H. Scott
and :dr. Phinn occupied the attention of Mr. ScholefiAd's
committee with the consideraton of the Louden and South-
Western Railway Company's proposed extensions in North
Devon. These extensions are three in number—the first, of
a length of seven miles, from a junction with the North
Devon Railway, which is leased to the South Western, at
Chittlehampton, near Umberleigh station, to South Hol-
ton; the second, of three miles, from South to North Mol-
ten; and a second junction spur between the first line and
the North Devon. This will require an additional earn of
£120,000 as new capital, and £40,000 loan. The traffic
case was considered. The case for the Gnat Northern
Company's proposed extensions between Lincoln and Bourn
is concluded, and the committee heard Mr. Burke for the
competing lines of the Great Eastern (Northern Junctions)
Railway, which proposes to raise a capital of £1,500,000, of
which £750,000 may be subscribed by the Great Eastern,
and£soo,ooo be raised by mortgage or debenture stock. The
new lines proposed are, first, a main communication, 108
miles long, from a junction with the authorised line of the
West Riding and Grimsby Railway at 0 wston, passing by
the west of Gainsborough and of Lincoln, then to the east
of Sleaford and Bourn, west of Peterborough, by Ramsey
and east of Somersham, to a junction with the St. lye's and
Cambridge line of the Great Eastern at Long Sutton, with
14 branch railways of 21 miles, to unite with various inter-
communicating lines in Lincolnshire. The main line will
cross the rivers Don, Idle, Trent, Welland, and Nene, by
viaducts and bridges. The preamble of the bill for the Clyde
Navigation was passed, with the exception of that portion
of it relating to the landing stages, Mr. Sinithells, traffic

manager, was examined at great length on the Blackburn
extensions of the Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Earl Stradbroke (chairman), the Earl of Yarborough,
Viscount Hardinge, and Lords Digby and Dartrey assem-
bled to consider the bill of the East and West Junction for
a railway of 32 miles from a junction with the authorised
line of the Northampton and Banbury at Towcester, passing
near Byfield, to near the Stratford-on-Avon passenger sta-
tion of the Great Western, and a branch to the Evesham
and Redditch Railway. The capital required is £350,000,
and £116,000 loan. The case was opened, and witnesses
were examined by Mr Staveley Hill for the promoters, and
the committee adjourned.