The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MOND

NEATII AND BRECON RAILWAY.
(New Railway in Swansea Valley—Further Capital—
Narrow Gauge on portions of South Wales and Swansea
Harbour Railways—Powers over those Railways—
Traffic Arrangement—Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act for the following purposes, or some of them,
that is to say,
To enable the Neath and Brecon Railway Company,
(hereinafter called " the Company,") to make and main-
tain the following railway, with all proper and necessary
stations, works, and conveniences, connected therewith,
that is to say,
A railway commencing at a point about 220 yards, mea-
suring the same in a south-westerly direction from the
road over the Swansea Canal, leading to Ynistawe farm-
house, and terminating in the town and franchise of Swan-
sea, in the parish of Swansea ; at or near the southern termi-
nus of the Swansea Canal; and which intended railway
will pass from, in, through, or into the parishes and places of
Llangefelach and St. John-juxta-S wansea, and tho town and
franchise of Swansea, all in the county of Glamorgan.
And it is intended by the said Act to confer upon the
Company all necessary powers for effecting the purposes,
or some of the purposes, following (that is to say),
To deviate laterally from the lines of the intended works
to the extent shown on the plans hereinafter mentioned,
and also to deviate vertically from the levels shown on the
sections hereinafter mentioned.

To cross, stop up, alter, or divert, for the purposes of the
Act, and either temporarily or permanently, any turnpike
or other roads, highways, footpaths, streets, railways,
tramways, canals, aqueducts, streams, rivers, , bridges,
sewers, drains, ways, and watercourses, within or adjoin-
ing to the aforesaid parishes and places, or any of them.
To purchase by compulsion and by agreement, lands,
houses, and hereditaments, for the purposes of the intended
works and of the Act, and to vary or extinguish any rights
or privileges connected with such lands, houses, and here-
ditaments ; to levy tolls, rates, and duties, upon or in re-
spect of the said intended railway and works ; to alter the
tolls,,rates, and duties which the Company, and the other
Companies hereinafter mentioned, are authorised to take on
their respective lines; and to confer, vary, or extinguish
exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and
duties.

To raise additional capital for the purposes of the in-
tended Act, and for the general purposes of their under-
taking, by the creation of new, ordinary, or preference
shares, and by borrowing.
To lay down and maintain additional rails in, upon, and
over the South Wales Railway, between the point about 3
miles and 4 furlongs, where the intended railway crosses
the end of the canal-sidings of the said South Wales Rail-
way and the termini of that Railway at Swansea, and also
in, upon, and over such portion of the Swansea Harbour
Railway as does not already consist of mixed gauge, and
in, upon, and over the terminal and other stations, sidings,
works, and conveniences connected with those portions of
railway respectively, so as to adapt the same to the passage
of, and user by, rolling stock on the narrow gauge as well
as on the broad gauge.
And it is also intended by the said Act to empower the
Company, and the Great Western Railway Company, the
Vale of Neath Railway Company, the Swansea Vale Rail-
way Company,
i and the Llanelly Railway and Dock Com-
pany, to enter into and carry into effect contracts, agree-
ments, and arrangements for or with reference to the
maintenance, working, use, and management, by either of
the contracting Companies, of the railways, tramroads, and
works of the other of them, or any part thereof, and with
reference to the regulation ; management, and transmission
of the traffic thereon, the collection, payment, division, ap-
propriation, and distribution of the tolls and other income
and profits arising therefrom ; the employment of officers
and servants, and the rents, payments, allowances, and
considerations, annual, periodical, or in gross, to be paid or
made by either of the contracting parties to the other or
others of them, and any incidental matters.
The intended Act will empower the Company, and all
Companies and persons using their authorised or intended
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, pay-
ments, terms, and conditions, to be prescribed by the Act,
or (failing agreement) settled by arbitration,-the following
railways and portion of railway, viz., the Swansea Harbour
Railway ; so much of the South Wales Railway as is
situate betiveen the intended crossing before described and
the terminus thereof at Swansea, and the junction with
the Swansea Harbour Railway; the Llanelly Railway
and Dock Company (Swansea Lines, Dock Branch) and
Extension to Mumbles ; the Vale of Neath, Swansea and
Neath Railway, the Swansea Vale Railway, and the
Oystermouth Railway; together with all terminal and other
stations, sidings, warehouses, buildings, booking aud.other
offices, approaches, watering-places, sheds, standing-room
for engines, shipping places, machinery, works and con-
veniences, water supplies, telegraph signals, and machi-
nery, in sad upon those railways and portion of railway re-
spectively, and to require the Companies and persons own-
ing and working the said railways and portion of railway
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., 25 and 26 Vic., cap. 193 ; 26 and 27 Vic., cap. 130 :
and 27 and 28 Vic cap. 316, relating to the Neath and
Brecon Railway ; 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 341, and all other
Acts relating to the Vale of Neath Railway Company ; 18
and 19 Vic., cap. 60 • 19 and 20 Vic:, cap. 95 ; 22 Vic., cap.
2 ; and 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 162, relating to the Swansea
Vale Railway ; 5 and 6 Will. IV., cap. 107 ; and 26 and 27
Vic., cap. 168 ; and all other Acts relating to the Great
Western Railway Company; 44 George the Third, cap.
55, relating to the Oystermouth Railway, or tramroad ;
the Llanelly Railway and Dock Act, 1853, and all other
Acts relating to the Lltinelly Railway and Dock Company ;
and the Swansea Harbour Act, 1854, and any other Acts
relating to the Swansea Harbour Trustees and their under-
takings. .

Anil it is also proposed to incorporate, in the said Act,
all or some of the provisions of "The Companies Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Companies Clauses Act,
1863," " Tho Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
" Tho Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act,
1860," " The Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
and " The Railways Clauses Act, 1863."
Duplicate plans and sections of the intended railway and
works, with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of
this Notice, as published in the London Gazette, together
with a published map having the lines of railway deli-
neated thereon, 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 in or through which the said railway 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 parish, at his residence, and as regards
any extra-parochial place, with the Parish Clerk of some
immediately-adjoining parish, at his residence.
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 sixteenth day of November, 1865.
JAMES KEMPTHORNE,
Neath, Solicitor.
WILLIAM BELL,
26, Duke-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agent.