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

WEST KENT RAILWAY.

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, and the Westminster Termi-
nus Railway Company.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENr,
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 Ranee aye
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them, together with all necessary
and convenient stations, approaches, bridges, roads, communications
and other w rks, and to confer upon the Company so to be incorpo-
rated all necessary and proper powers for effecting the objects here-
inaf:er mentioned, or some of them, (that is to say) :-
Ist. A Railway commencing by a junction with the North Kent
Line of the South-Eastern Raffle ay Company, near the point where
the parishes of Saint 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 Railway, at or near the point at which the said
firstly-described intended Railway is intended to terminate at Pope-
street, in the said parish of Eltham, and terminating in the parish
of Dartford, at a point en the south bank of the River Thames, at
or near the place where Use Dartford Creek joins the 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 Dartford, and terminating by a
junction with the said secondly-desei !bee 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, and terminating by a junction with the authorised line of the
Darenth Valley Railway Company, at or near a point about twenty-
one chains from the intended junction of the last-mentioned autho-
rized Railway, with the said South Eastern North Kent Railway, in
the said parish of Dartford, in the county of Kent.
sth. A Railway commencing by ajunction 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 road to the
Parish Church at Footscray, at a distance of about 10 chains to the
southward 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
Footway, 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 at. 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 following, or some of them (that is to say) :
the parishes of Lewisham, Deptford, Saint Paul Deptford, Green-
wich, Lee, Eltham, 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.
An 1 it is intended 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 trainroads, within the parishes,
townships, and extra-parochial and other laces of iresaid, or some
of them, as it m sy be necessary or desirable to cross, divert, alter, or
stop up, for tho 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 hereditaments, 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
might ins any manner impede or interfere with the carrying into
effect the several objects of the said intended bill.
To levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in , espect 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 com-
pulsory provision for the speedy and convenient transmission of
traffic passing to, from, or over the intended railways. or any part
thereof, from, to, or over the railways of the North Kent Line of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, the authorised and proposed lines
of the Westminster Terminus Railway Company, and the authorised
Tine of the Darenth Valley Railway Company, and to render it
obligatory on those Companies to transmit such traffic in the moat
conven out manner and without avoidable delay, and to provide for
a compulsory arbitration in case of difference as to the terms and
conditions upon which such facilities are to be afforded.
And Nolice is hereby also given that duplicate plans and sections
of the prep° ,ed railways and wm ks, 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
instant. be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the
l'eace for the eoenty of Kent, at his else at Maidstone, in that
eounty ; and that, on or before the sad 30th day of Nov, mber
ins'ant, a copy of so much of the snid plans, 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, together with a copy of ibis notice as
pu al,hed in the " London Gazette," will he deposited for public
inspection is the case of each pariah with the parish clerk thereof,
at his residence, and in Use case of each extra-parochial place, with
the parishclerk of some parish immediate'y adjoining thereto, at
his residence ; and printed copies of the -aid intended Bill will he
deposited at the Private Bill Office of tha Rouse of Commons on or
before the 31st day of December, 1854.
Dated this 11th day of November, 1834.
E. IV. COBB, 17, Parliament-street.