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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN.

i PRicE SD.

The following letter has been addressed to the pro-
prietors of the South-Eastern Railway :
London-bridge Terminus, Dec. 1, 1853.
Gentlemen, —The directors feel it to be their duty to
present for your notice a list of schemes advertised in
the public papers as about to be submitted to the con-
sideration of Parliament in the ensuing session, which,
if carried into effect, will, in the view of the directors,
in one way or another affect the interests of the South-
Eastern Railway Company. They are the following--
West-end of London and Crystal Palace Railway.— -
Extension to Bromley and Farnborough.
West-end of London and Crystal Palace Railway.--
Amalgamation, sale or lease of undertaking to London,
Brighton and South Coast, the South-Eastern, and
London and South-Western Railway Companies (all or
any of them). •
Direct Southern Railway and Thames Terminus.—
Incorporation of company, construction of railways from
Bankside, Southwark, to Tonbridge and the Crystal
Palace, with branch to main line at Tonbridge, and land-
ing-place at Bankside; powers to use part of South-
Eastern Railway, and to enter into arrangements with
that company ; power to South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany to subscribe and raise capital, and for other pur-
poses.
South London Railway.—lncorporation of comp
any,
with power to make railways connecting theSpoaunthr: Eastern, the London, Brighton, and South Coast, the
London and South-Western, and the West End of Lon-
don and Crystal Palace, or West London and Crystal
Palace Railways ; and also a branch railway to or near
the Crystal Palace Park ; running powers over portions
of the West End of London and Crystal Palace or West
London and Crystal Palace Railway, and South-Eastern
Railway ; working arrangements with the London,
Brighton and South Coast, the South-Eastern, the Lon-
' don and South-Western, and the West End of London
and Crystal Palace Railway Companies ; and powers to
enable those companies to subscribe, &c., to the under-
taking ; amendment of the acts of those companies re-
spectively.
London and West Kent Railway.—Railways from
Sydenharn station of London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway Company to Maidstone, and junction with
the line of West End of Loudon and Crystal Palace Rail-
way Company, and facility clauses affecting those com-
panies.

West Rent and Crystal Palace Junction Railways.—
Railways from Farnborough, Otford, Eltham, and
Greenwich to Crystal Palace, and junction with railways
of South-Eastern, London, Brighton, and South Coast,
and West of London and Crystal Palace Railway Com-
panies, and facility clauses affecting those companies.
Sydenham, Farnborough, and Otford Railways.—
Rail ways from Sydenham station of London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway Company to Farnborough and
Otford junction with line of West End and Crystal
Palace Railway Company, and facility clauses affecting
those companies.
Southwark and Crystal Palace Railway.—From the
river Thames at Bankside, Southwark, to Crystal
Palace.

Otford, Sevenoaks, and Tonbridge Railway.—lncor-
poration of company for constructing a railway from
Otford to the lines of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, near Tonbridge.
Maidstone and Ashford Junction Railway.—lncor-
poration of company for making railway from Maidstone
to Chart.

London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway.—En-
largement of New-cross, Bricklayers' Arms, and Norwood
stations ; widening of Thames Junction Railway and
main line near New-cross ; diversion of occupation road
near Cold Blow-lane ; establishment of savings-banks
and provident fund ; additional capital ; alteration in
amount of preference dividend on proposed debenture
stock ; and amendment of acts.

Westminster Terminus Railway.— Incorporation of
company, with power to make a railway to Clapham,
and branch to join the West-end of London and Crystal
Palace Railway ; running powers over existing railways ;
amendments of acts, and other purposes.
London and Westminster Sub-Railway.—lncorpora-
tion of company, and construction of railway from
Leicester-square to the station of the South-Eastern
Railway in the Kent-road, commonly called the Brick-
layers' Arms Statioß.

Wellington Docks (Southwark).—lncorporation of
company, construction of docks ; connecting railway
and other works and arrangements with other companies.
To be connected with the South-Eastern and London,
Brighton and South Coast Railways.
Greenwich and South-Eastern Docks.—Construction
of docks, basins, locks, and other works, and incorpora-
tion of company. In the Greenwich Marshes ; entrances,
one into the Thames 1,100 feet north of East Greenwich
Pier, and another 420 feet north of the South-Eastern
Quay.
Leicester-square Junction Railway, and Southwark
Improvement.—lncorporation of company; construction
of railway from Leicester-square to join the London,
Brighton, and South Coa.st. London and Croydon Rail-

Way, and South-Eastern Railway, near London-bridge,
with a branch to join the London and South-Western
Railway near the Waterloo station ; and construction of
new streets and a bridge over the Thames ; powers to
purchase Charing-cross-bridge and Hungerford-market,
and to use parts of the London, Brighton, and South
Coast and other railways, and to enter into working ar-
rangements with the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company and other companies, and other pur-
poses ; seeking powers to make arrangements with Lon-
don, Brighton, and South Coast, London and Croydon,
South-Eastern, and London and South-Western Railway
Companies, and any other company already or hereafter
to be incorporated, for the use of the intended works ;
and to appoint joint committees ; and running powers
to the company thereby to be incorporated over the lines
of the above companies and of any other company
already or hereafter to be incorporated ; powers to the

companies mentioned, or any other, to subscribe thereto
and raise capital for that purpose.
Portsmouth Railway.—Deviations ; alterations of
levels ; extension from Godalming to Shalford ; diversion
of roads and amendment of acts. And a railway from

Godahning through the parishes of Farneome, St.

Nicholas, Guildfoi.'d, and Shalford, and terminating by
a junction with the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate line

of the South-Eastern liails;.ay Company, in the parishes
of Shalford and St. Nicholas, Guildford.

Caterham Railway.—lncorporation of company for
making a railway from the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway, neat the Godstone-road station, to
Caterham.

Darenth Valley Railway.—Extension of the line from
Dartford to Farningham—to Seven-oaks,
Dover and Canterbury and Dover and Deal Rail-
ways (East Kent Extension).—lncorporation of a com-
pany ; construction of railway from Dover to Canter-
bury, with branches to Deal ; power to use lines and
stations of, and to enter into arrangements with, the
South-Eastern Railway Company and East Kent Rail-
way Company ; amendment of acts.

The directors feel it unnecessary at present to com-
ment on each scheme ; the proprietors of the South-
Eastern Railway are equally able to estimate their value,
and to judge how far the contingencies of the money-mar-
ket, or the probable course of legislation will affect these
and sirni ar undertakings. The spirit of adventure is
obviously rife. And such a group of schemes about us
might excite apprehension, if the resolutions adopted in
the last session of Parliament, on the recommendation
of Mr. Cardwell's committee, did not induce the con-
fident belief that the Legislature will hereafter so
direct all further outlay in railway construction, as to
maintain a due regard to existing railway interests in
connection with the convenience of districts hitherto
imperfectly supplied with railway accommodation. It
may, however, be the duty of the directors to enter
more fully upon this subject as the session aP-
proaches. Whilst experience suggests extreme
against encumbering the company with unremun
rating branch lines, yet it becomes most,_ ,„ .
ca.utioen,
im-
portant to discriminate what is eligible iot'
refusal to
teat and advance its interests. A general
,
do anything would reject the considera.tioo
the corn-
the end might prove to be highly conducive
with i the main-
toof what in
pany's welfare, and intimately connected
tenance of its property. The exercise
matter for the utmost
discrimina
tion and judgment is at this moment,
the
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care. On the 15th November, gent line from Lewis-
,directors recom-
mended the extension of the NorthLi arrangement with the
ham to Bromley and Croyt, '
t necessity of that exTtene-
Brighton Company, and
Presses- upon attention: the
sion to Bromley now
ur consideration in the
present Y 0
Lewisham to
directors recommendbranch line
from
a ed to cost
present session
miles in length, estimated
tafford acco-
Bromley,
six nit:ix links' if made,' willdistrict,
136,000/. These important and growing. building
to extend
to an those who are anxious
modation
to
n in Kent the and will present,filt, railway constructio .
with the
immediately •-• b' • g their extensions imrne f corn inin
rtunity 0
Tonbridge or Maidstone, or
oppo tern system to
th-Eas out in their schemes,
Sou
other places pointed
termini of the
an AY avail themselves of the existing.
an,. to consi-
deration The questionfor your
..
South Eastern Railway. .
-
Bromley will be
whether such extension to
deration is,
with no loss and
• or at the least attended
inquiries .„
remunerative„
best and
interests requiring it. The
satisfy the
establish that it will be beneficial, and will
information .
• district populous and increasing,
give satisfaction to a,
whose
influential. The directors have ventured to give prelimi-
nary notice for this measure, and for power to issue the
stock required to construct the Strood and Maidstone ,
line, on terms which will prove more beneficial to the pro-
prietors I
prietors than those conferred by the present act for
making that line, and to enable the conversion of the I
whole of the bond debt of the company into capital on bet-
ter
terms than is now possible, and which would add to
the value of a preference stock if created. The directors
wish to remind you that, in the proposed plan of last
year for making the Lewisham and Bromley line,
with an extension to Croydon, on joint account with the
Brighton Company, the cost would have been 240,0001,
The extension to Croydon would have been 3 miles in
length, and it was proposed on that occasion to have
widened a portion of the existing line on the London side
of Lewisham viaduct for the mutual advantage of both
oompanies, and those world would lay. cot 104,0001.