The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-24 00:00:00

WEST KENT EITLWAY.

Railways from Lewisham and Lee to Eltham, the Crays, and Dart-
ford, and Dartford Creek; Junctions with Railways of South-
Eastern, and Darenth Valley_ Railway Companies, and Facility
Clauses affecting those Companies, aird the Westminster termi-
nus Railway Company.
ATOTITCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, - That
1.1 • APPLICATION Is intended to be made to PARLUMEN r,
in the ensuing Session, for leave.to bring in a Bill to euable-a Com-
pany to he thereby incerporated 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 w rk', and to confer upon the Company so to be incorpo-
rated all necessary and proper powers for effectin; the objects here-
loaf er mentioned, or some of them, (that is to say):—
let. A Railway connmencinf by a junction with the North Kent
Line of the South-Eastern Railway Company, near the point where
the parishes of Saint Paul Deptford, Lewisham, and Greenwich
anite, and terminating at a point in the pariah of Elthatn, 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.

2ml. A. Railway commencing by a junction with the fatd ilrstly-
described intended Railway, at or near the point at which the Said
firstly-described Intended Railway is Intended to tei Initiate at Pc•pe-
itreet, in the said parish of Eltharn, and terminating in the parish
Of PArtfard24ll 4.point,mallia.:south bank of the River Thamex, at
or near the place where the Dartford Creek Tains the said river, and
which said last-mentioned Radii-Ay to be made in or to pass
through the parishes of iltharn, Crayford, Bexley, and 'Dartford,
and the hamict of Nottingham, or soul:: of them, all in the county
of Kent.

ad. A. Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
ine of the south Eastern Railway Company, at or, near the west
id% of the Dartford station of the said st,uth Eastern North Kent

line or Railway, in the parish of Dai +co d, and _terminating* by a
junction 1, ith th • said secondly-dese Mei in' ended Railway, at or
,neir 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 IA cross the said North Kent
line in the parish of Dartford, in the county of Rent.
4th. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said secondly
described intended Railway, at a point about nineteen chains from
the proposed pioint ofjunction of the said secondly described intended
!Railway, with the sal I South Eastern North Kent Railway at Dart-
ford, and terminating by a junction with the authorised line of the
Darenth Valley Railway Company, at or near a point about twenty-
sue chains from the intended junction of the last-mentioned autho-
ricectßailway, with the said South Eastern North Kent RailwJy, in
the said parish of Dartford, in the county of Kent.
sth. A Railway commencing by a junction with the said firstly-
,described intended Railway, at its proposed point of termination at
'Pope-street, in the parish of Eltham, and terminating at a point
'abutting on the public road leading from the turnpike rod to the
Parish Church at Footacray, at a &stance of about 10 chains to the
southwaid of the said Parish Church of Footsdray, in the county of

Gth. A Railway commenclrg by a junction with the said fifthly-
d ascribed intended Railway, at its proposed point of term;nation at
snotscray, 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 •sereral parishes, townships, extra-
parochial and other places following, or some of them (that is to say) :
the parishes of Lewisham, Deptford, Saint Paul Deptford, Green-
wich, Lee, Eltham, the hamlet of Mottinzham, the parishes of Gem-
ley. Crayford, and Dartford, Chlselhurst, Footscray, St. Mary's Cray,
St. Paul's Cray, North Cray, and Orpington, all in the county of Kent.
An t it is intended by the said bill to apply ter and obtain powers
to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether temporarily or perma-
nently, a'l each turnpike roads, p trish roads, streets and other high-
ways, stream., pipes, drains,-sewers;-canals, navigations, rivers,
bridges, telegraphs, railways, and tramroads, within the parishes,
townships; and extra-parochial and other t laces of resaid, or some
of them, as it m ,y be necessary or desirable to cross, divert, alter, or
stop up, for the purposes of the said railways 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 works,
and of the said intended bill, and to vary or extinguish all rights
and privileges in any manner connected with the lands, houses,
tenements, and hereditaments so purchased or taken, or which
iu any manner impede or interfere with the carryins into
effect the several objects of the said intended bill.
To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in espect of the intendeid
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 corn-
pul.ory provision for the isp,:enly and convenient transmission of
traffic passing to, from, or over the intendei railways, or any part
thereof, from, to, or over the railways of the North Kant Zane of the
Situth-Eastern Railway Company, the authorised and proposed lines
of the Westminster Terminus Railway Company, and the authorised
line of the Daronth Valley Railway Company, and to render it
obligatory on those. Companies to transmit such. traffic in the most
convenient nainner and without avoidable delay, and to provide for
a compulsory arbitration in case of difference its 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 proposed railways and works, with a book of reference to such
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 30th day of November
in,tant, be deposited for public Inspection with the Clerk of the
recce for the comity of Kent, at his office at MaidstonP, In that
county ; and that, on or before the ea d 30th day of November
instant. a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and book of
reference as relates to each parish or extra parochial place in or
through which the said railways and works, or any part of them,
Are or is intended to be made, tozether with a copy of this notice as
pu Ii hed in the " London Gazette," wl.l be deposited for public
inspection is the case of each parish 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 -aid intended Bill will be
deposited at the Private Mill Office of the House of Commons on or
before the 31st day of December, 1854.
Dated this 11th day of November' 1854.
E. W. COBB, 17, Parliament-street.