The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-24 00:00:00

N EAT H JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Incorporation of Company—Construction of Railways
to connect the South Wales Mineral Railway with the
Swansea and Neath Railway, near Neath—Powers to
Great Western, South Wales Mineral, and Vale of Neath
Railway Companies—User of Portions of other Railways
Amendment of Acts.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application will
be made to Parliament, in the next Session, for an Act to
incorporate a Company (hereinafter called "the Com-
pany") for making and maintaining the railways following
or one of them (with stations, approaches, works, and con-
veniences), viz. :
No. 1. A railway commencing in the hamlet of Coed-
frank, in the parish of Cadoxton, juxta Neath, by a junction
with the Vale of Neath Railway, at or near the point
whore the tramroad to the Crown Copper Works crosses
over that railway and terminating in the parish of Neath
by a junction with the South Wales Railway at or near
the distance post thereon indicating 2071 miles, which in-
tended railway will pass from, in, through, or into the
parishes and places of Cadoxton, juxta Neath, Blaen-
honddon, Neath, Dyffryn, Clydach, Coedfrank, Briton
Ferry, and Llantwit.
2. A railway commencing at or near the termination of
the intended railway before described, and terminating by
a junction with the South Wales Mineral Railway at or
near Cwrt Sart Lane, in the parish of Briton Ferry ; which
intended railway will pass from, in, through, or into the
parishes and places of Briton Ferry, Llantwit, Llantwit-
juxta-Neath, and Neath.
The said intended railways will be wholly situate in the
county of Glamorgan, and may be constructed upon the
broad or narrow gauge, or adapted to both gauges.
The intended Act will empower the Company to exer-
cise all or some of the following powers (that is to say) ,
To purchase by compulsion and also by agreement
lands, houses, and hereditaments for the purposes of the
said proposed railways and worki connected therewith ;
to levy tolls, rates, and charges upon or in respect of the
proposed railways and works ; to confer exemptions from
the payment of tolls, rates, and charges ; to vary or extin-
guish all rights and privileges inconsistent with the objects
of the intended Act ; and to confer other rights and
privileges.
To cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of
the intoudod Ao6i and either temporarily or peimanently,
roads, streets, ways, streams, pipes, sewers, canals, nsvi-
gations, rivers, bridges, railways, tramroads, and water-
courses within or adjoining the parishes and places afore-
said, or any of them.
The intended Act will empower the Great Western
Railway Company, the South Wales Mineral Railway
Company, and the Vale of Neath Railway Company, or
any one or more of those Companies, to exercise the powers
of the intended Act, and to become promoters thereof, and
to take and hold shares in and subscribe towards the in-
tended undertaking or any part thereof, and to guarantee
to the Company interest, dividend, or annual or other
payments, and for those purposes to empower the said
several Companies to apply their corporate funds and
revenues, and to raise further capital by the creation of
new shares or stock in their respective undertakings, with
or without any preference or priority in payment of in-
terest or dividend, or other privileges attached thereto, and
by borrowing on mortgage or otherwise.
And it is intended by the said Act to empower the Com-
pany on the one hand, and the Great Western Railway
Company, the South Wales Mineral Railway Company,
and the Vale of Neath Railway Company, or any one of
them, on the other hand, to make and carry into effect
agreements with respect to the maintenance and manage-
ment, use, and working of the railways of the contracting
parties, or any parts thereof, and the conveyance of traffic
thereon; the fixing, collecting, and apportionment of the
tolls, rates, charges, receipts, and revenues levied, taken,
or arising in respect of such traffic, and the supply and
maintenance of engines, stock, and plant.
The intended Act will empower the Company and all
companies and persons working or using their railways,
or any part thereof, to run over, work, and use with their
engines, carriages, and waggons, and for the purposes of
traffic of every description, upon rates, payments, terms,
and conditions to be prescribed by the Act, or (failing
agreement) settled by arbitration, the following railway
and portion of railway; viz.,
1. So much of the Swansea and Neath line of the Vale
of Neath Railway Company as is situated westward of the
intended junction therewith of the railway firstly before
described.
2. The Swansea Harbour Railway.
Together with all terminal and other stations,
sidings, warehouses, buildings, booking, and other
offices, approaches, watering places, sheds, stand-
ing room for engines, works, and convenience,
water supplies, telegraph signals, shipping stages, and
machinery, in and upon such railway and portion of rail-
way respectively, and to require the companies and persons
owning and working the said railway and portion of rail-
way respectively, to afford and render all facilities and
services for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is proposed, so far as may be necessary for all or
any of the purposes of the intended Act, to alter, amend,
extend, vary, and enlarge, or repeal all or some of the
powers and provisions of the several local and personal
Acts of Parliament following, or some of them, viz., 5 and
6 William IV., cap. 107, and 26 and 27 Vic., cap. 168, and
of all other Acts relating to the Great Western Railway
Company ; The South Wales Mineral Railway Act, 1853,
and of all other Acts relating to the South Wales Mineral
Railway Company ; 9 andlo Vic., cap. 341, and of all other
Acts relating to the Vale of Neath Railway Company and
their undertaking.
And it is also proposed to incorporate in the said Act all
or some or the pruvlstons uf •• Tne companies' Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845 ;" "The Companies' Clauses Act,
1863 ;" " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845;"
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act,
1860 ;" "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 ;"
and " The Railways Clauses Act, 1863."
Duplicate plans and sections of the intended railways
and works, with a book of reference to such plans, and a
published map having the lines of railway delineated
thereon, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will be deposited on or before the 30th-
November, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace
for the County of Glamorgan, at his office in Cardiff, and
a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of
reference, as relates to each of the parishes iu or through
which the said railways and works will be made, together
with a copy of the said Gazette notice will be deposited
on or before the 30th day of November, in the present year,
with the Parish Clerk of each such pariah at his residence,
and as regards any extra parochial place, with the Parish
Clerk of some immediately adjoining parish at his resi-
dence.
Printed copies of the intended Act will be deposited in
the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, on or
before the 23d day of December next.
Dated this 16th day of November, 1865.
WILLIAM BELL, •
26, Duke-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agent.