The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-30 00:00:00

WEST KENT RAILWAY.

Railways from Lewisham and Lee to Eltham, the Crays, and Dart-
ford, and Dartford Creak; Junctions with Railways of South-
Eastern, and Darenth Valley Ralvray Companies, and Facility
Clauses affecting those Companies, and the Westminster Termi-

nus Railway Company.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMEN P.
in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill to enable a Com-
pany to he thereby incorporated to make and maintain the Railways
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, together with all necessary
and convenient stations, approaches, bridges, roads, communications
and other ass-rke, and to confer upon the Company so to be incorpo-
rated all necessary and proper powers for effecting tile objects here-
inafter mentioned, or some of them, (that is to say):—
let. A Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
Line of the South-Eastern Railway Converts', near the point where
the parishes of Snint Paul Deptford, Lewisham, and Greenwich
unite, and terminating at a point in the parish of Eltham, near to
the turnpike-road from Eltham to Maidstone, and near the cross
roads at Pope-street, in the said parish of Eltham, in the county of
Kent.
2nd. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said firstly-
described intended RaLway, at or near the point at which the said
firstly-described intended Hallway is intended to terminate at Pepe-
street, in the said parish of F.ltham, and terminating in the parish
of Dartford, at a point en the south bank of the River Thames, at
or near the place where the Dartford Creek joins tba said river, and
which said last-mentioned Railway is to be made in or to pass
through the parishes of Eltham, Crayford, Bexley, and Dartford,
and the hamlet of Mottingham, or some of them, all in the county
of Kent.
3d. A Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
line of the South Eastern Railway Company, at or near the west
side of the Dartford station of the said South Eastern North Kent
line of Railway, in the parish of Darlene% and terminating by a
junction with th it said secondly-described intended Railway, at or
near a point on the south side of the said North Kent line of
Railway, about ten chains from the point at which the said secondly-
described intended Railway is intended to cross the said North Kent
line in the parish of Dartford, in the county of Kent.
4th. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said secondly
described intended Railway, at a point about nineteen chains from
the proposed point of junction of the said secondly-described intended
Railway, with the said South Eastern North Kent Railway at Dart-
ford, end terminating by a junction with the authorised line of the
I)arer-Ith Valley Railway Company, at or near a point about twenty-
erre chains from the intended junction of the last-mentioned autho-
rized Railway, with the said South Eastern North Kent Railway, is
the said parish of Dartford, in the county of Kent.
sth. A It away commencing by ajunction with the said firstly-
described intended Hallway, at its proposed point of termination at
Pope-street, in the parish of Eltearn, and terminating at a point
abutting on the public road leading faint tha turnpike road to the
Parish Church at Footscray, at a distance of about 10 chains to the
southwasd of the said Parish Church of Footscray, in the county of
Kent.
6th. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said fifthly-
described intended Railway, at its proposed point of termination at
Footscray, and terminating at a point abutting the public road where
the River Cray crosses the parish boundary between Saint Mary's
Cray and Orpington, In the parish of St. Mary's Cray, in the county
of Kent. _ .

Which said intended railways and works will be made to pass
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, extra-
parochial and other places folio wirg, or some of them (that is to say) :
the parishes of Lewisham, Deptford, Saint Paul Deptford, Green-
wich, Lee, Eitham, the hamlet of Mottingham, the parishes of Bex-
ley, Crayford, and Dartford, Chiselhurst, Footscray, St. Mary's Cray,
St. Paul's Cray, North Cray, and Orpington, all in the county of Kent.

Intended
An i it is by the said bill to apply for and obtain powers
to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether temporarily or perma-
nently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets and other high-
ways, streams, pipes, drains, sewers, canals, navigations, rivers,
bridges, telegraphs, railways, and tramroads, within the parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial anti other places of resold, or some
of them, as it rn4y be necessary or desirable to cross, divert, alter, or
stop up, for the purpoles of the said raliways and works, or any of
them, or of the said intended bill.
To purchase by compulsion, and also by agreement, lands, houses,
and heredltaments, for the purposes of such railways and worMi,
and of the said intended bill, and to very or extinguish all rizlits
and privileges in any manner cann. cted with the lands, houses,
tenements, and hereditaments on puvhapd or taken, or which
might any manner impede or interfere with the carrying into
effect the several objects of the said intended btil.
To levy tolls, rates, and dutieS upon or in espeet of the intended
railways and works, to confer exemptions from the payment of such
tolls, rates, and duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights
and privileges.
And it is also intended by the said bill to make effectual and cone-
pulqory provision for the speedy and convenient transmission of
tratlic passing to, from, or over the intendel railways, or any part
thereof, from, to, or over the railways of the North Kent tine of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, the authorised and proposed lines
of the Westminster Terminus Railway Company, and the authorised
line of the I)arenth Valley Railway Company, and to render it
obligatory on those Companies to transmit such traffic in the most
convenient instiller and without avoidable delay, and to previ le for
a compulsory arbitration in case of difference as to the terms and
conditions upon which such facilities are to be afforded.
And Notice is hereby also given that duplicate plans and sections
of the propo red railways and works, with a book of reference to mull
plans, and a published map with the lines of the proposed railways
delineated thereon, and a copy of this notice as published in the
" London Gazette." will, on or before the 30111 day of November
instant. be deposited for public Inspection with the Clerk of the
Peace for the county of Kent, at his office at Maidstone, in that
county ; and that, on or before the said 30th day of Nowniber
instant, a copy of so much of the said Wars, sections, and book of
reference as relates to each parish or extra paroch al place in or
through which the said railways and works, or any part of them,
are or is intended to he made, to,tether with a cony of ibis notice as
plldi bed in the " London Gazette," will he deposited for public
inspection in the case of each pariah with the parish clerk thereof,
at his residence, and in the case of each extra-parochial place, with
the parish clerk of some parish immediately adjoining thereto, at
his residence ; and printed copies of the said intended Bill will he
deposited at the Frivate Bill Office of the HouSo of Commons on or
before the 31st day of December, 1854.
Dated this 11th day of November, 1854.
E. W. COBB, 17, Parliament-street.