The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

TCANNOCK RAILWAY..
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RAILWAY from WEDNESBURY to CANNOCK: POWERS
to GREAT WESTERN, and to DERRYSIIIRE, STAFFORD-
SUIRE, and WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANIES.

Application is intended to be made to Parliament in the
next Session thereof, for a bill to incorporate a company,
and to enable that company to make and maintain a railway,
either 01 the broad or narrow gauge, or of both gau...es
with all proper stations, sidings, approaches, works. and conve
'dunces colinected therewith, commencing at or near the town of
Wednesbury, by a junction with the authorised line of the Birming-
ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, near to the point where
that railway crosses the turnpike-road from Wednesbury to Dudley,
in the marish of Wednesbury, in the co nty of Stafford, and termina-
ting by a junction with the line authorised to be made by the Derby-
shire, Staffordshirr., and Worcestershire Junction It ilway Act, 1847,
in the parish of Cannock, in the county of Stafford. at or near a cer-
tain field called hill-field, near White-hill, and adjoining the high-
way leading from annock to Rugeley ; which proposed railway
will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within,
the several parishes, townships, and extra -parochial places
following, or some of them ; (that is to say) Cannock, liednesford,
Eednestord with Leacroft, Hatherton, Huntington, Leacroft,
Churchbridge, Cannock Wood, Cannock Chase, Wyrley, Great
Wyrley, Little Wyrley, Brewoo ', Aldridge, Great Barr,Wy rley Bark,
Landywood, Cheslyn Hay, Saredon, Great and Little Saredon,
Shareshill, Hilton' Featherstone, Norton, Norton Canes, Nort n-
under-Cannock, Brown Hills, Bloxwic,), Great iiloxwich, Little
Bloxwi?,h, Birch Hills, Rushall, Pelsall, Walsall, Walsall
Foreign, Essington, Sneyd, Essington Wood, Bushbury, Old
Fallings, Bentley, Wednesfleld, Willenhall, Bilston, Wolver-
hampton, Darlaston, Delves, Bescot, Neck, Wednesbury, Sedgley,
Tipton, and Westbromwich, or some of theme, all in the county of
Stafford

Also a railway commencing from and out of the before men-
tioned intended railway, in the parish of Wednesbury, at or near
the point where the turnpike road from Wednesbury to Bilston
crosses the private tramway from the Old Park Collieries and Iron
Works to the Walsall Level of the Birmingham Canal, and termi-
nating in the township of Bilston. in the parish of Wolverhampton
at or near the point where the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley Railway crosses the turnpike road from Gospel Oak to
Blision; which intended railway will pass from, in, through, or into,
or be situate within, the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places following, or some of them : (that is to
say) Wolverhampton, Bilston, Sedgley, Tipton, Darlaston, Mosley,
Bradley, and Wednesbury, all in the county of Stafford :
Also, a railway commencing at or near the point lastly above de-
scribed, in the township of Bilston, and terminating by a junction
with the line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
in the parish of Sedgley in the county of Stafford, at or near the
point where the public carriage road from Prince's End to Coseley
Church crosses the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway;
which intended railway will pass from, in, through, or into, or be
situate within, the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial
or other places following, or same of them : (that is to say) Wolver-
hampton, Bilston, Sedgley. Tipton, Darlaston, Moxley, Bradley,
and Wednesbury, all in the county of Stafford :
The bill will take powers for the purchase of lands and buildings,
by compulsion, for the purposes of the intended railways and works,
and will vary or extinguish all existing rights or privileges connected
with the said lands and buildings, or which would interfere with the
construction, maintenance, or use of the said intended railways and
works, and to confer other rights and privileges ; it will also enable
the company to levy tolls, rates, and charges for and in respect of the
use of the said intended railways ,ncl works, and to grant exemptions
from such tolls, rates, and charges :
Maps, plans, and sections of the said intended railways and works,
together with books of reference to such plans, and also a copy of
this notice, will be deposited on or before the thirtieth day of No-
vember instant, with the Clerk of the Peace for Staffordshire, at his
office in Stafford ; and a copy of so much of the said plans, sections,
and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in cr through
which the said intended railways and works are proposed to be
male. and also a copy of this notice will be deposited on or before
the same day with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his resi-
dence; and as to so much or such part of Cheslyn Ray as may be
extra-parochial, with the clerk of the adjoining parish of Cannock :
The bill will enable the Great Western Railway Company, and
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Company, or either of them, to contribute towards the intended un-
dertakieg such portion , f their respective corporate funds as shall be
defined by the bill, and to rase a further sum of money by the crea-
tion and issue of new shares in their respective undertakings, and
by mortgage or bond ; and to attach to the shares so to be created
such priority of dividend, or guarantee of Interest, as the bill may
prescribe:
The bill will also enable the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, a..d Worcestershire
Junction Railway Company, or either of them, to complete the
said intended railways and works, or such parts of the
same as the bill shall define, if the same shall not be completed
within a spe 'Med time by the company to be incorporated by the
bill ; a, d it will else enable the Great Western Railway Company
to use the slid intended undertaking with their own engines and
carriages, and also to enter into arrrargements with the intended
company for the maintenance and working of the said undertaking
by the Gre tt Western Railway Company, and for the conveyance
of traffic thereon, and for the conveyance and Interchange of traffic
common to the companies, and the collection and apportionment of
the tolls and other charges affecting all such traffic :
The bill will also require the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wcr-
cestershire Junction Railway Company to grant the facilities de-
scribed in the bill for the conveyance and accommodation, along
their Railway, and at their mations, of the carriages and waggons,
and of the passengers, animals, and goods, coming from or destined
for the intended Railways, and for the passage along their railway
iof the engines, carriages, and waggons of the intended company, or
of the company for the time being working, or using, or having the
control over, the intended railwayS
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