The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-17 00:00:00

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CANNOCK RAILWAY.-
RAILWAY from WEDSESBURY to CANNOCK : POWERS
to GREAT WESTER
, and to DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORD-
SHIRE, and WORCEST.ERSHIRE 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,
commencing at or near the town of
ANsiletnlicesalleopnrnoepcetr
istii,d,ings, approaches, works, and conve -
either of the broad or narrow gauge, or of both , gauzes
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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 parish of Wednesbury, in the county of Stafford, ann termina-
ting by a junction with the line authorised to be made by the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Juuction Railway Act, 1547,
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 Cannock to Rugeley ; which proposed railway
will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within,
the several parishes, townships, and extra.paeochla; places
following, or some of them ; (that is to say) Cannock, Hednesford,
Hednestord with Leacroft, Hatherton, Huntington, Leacroft,
Churchbridge, Cannock Wood, Cannock Chase, Wyrley, Great
Wyrley, Little Wyrley, Brewooi, Aldridge, Great Barr, Wyrley Bank,
Landywood, Cheslyn Hay. Saredon, Great and Little Saredon,
Shareshill, Hilton, Featherstone, Norton, Norton Canes, Norton-
under-Cannock, Brown Hills, Bloxwieb, Great Bloxwich, Little
maxsyLt, Birch Bills, Bushell, Pelsal/, Walsall, Walsall
Foreign, Essington, Sneyd, Essington Wood, 13ustibury, Old
Fallings, Bentley, Wednesfield, Willenhall, Bilston, Wolver-
hampton, Darlaston, Delves, Bescot, Pleck, Wednesbury, Sedgley,
Tipton, and iVestbroinwich, or some of them, 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 Coilieries 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
Dadi.y Raiav,iy cro.ses the turnpike road from Gospel Oak to
Bilston; which intended railway will passirom, In, through, or into,
or be situate within, the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial or other places followinz, or some of them : (that is to
Say) Wolverhampton, Blistoe, 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 Badway,
in the parish of Sedgley in the county of Stafford, at or near the
roint where the pubic 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 parishe, townships, and extra-parochial
or other places following, or sane of them : (that is to say) Wolver-
hampton, Bilston, Sedgley, Tipton, Darlaston, Mosley, Bradley,
and Wednesbury,
all in the county of Stafford :
The bill will take po veers for the purchase of lands and buildings,
by compulsion, for the per, oses of the intended railways and works,
and will viry or extinguish all existing rights or privileges connected
with the said lands and buildings, or which would interfere with the
construction, maintenan a, 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, arid charges for and in respect of the
use of the said intended railways -nd 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,
an 1 books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in or through
which the said intended railways and works are proposed to be
in sde, 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 Hay as may be
extra-parochial, with the clerk of the adjoining parish of Cannock :
The bill will enabie the Great Western Railway Company, and
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Company, or either of them, to contribute towards the intended un-
dertaking such portion of their respective corporate funds as shall be
defined by the bill, and to raise 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 Railwity Com-
pany, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and 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 spelfled time by the company to be incorporated by the
bill ; a d it will also enable the Great Western Railway Company
to use the said intended undertaking with their own engines and
carriages, and also to enter Into arrrangements with the intended
company for the maintenance and working of the said undertaking
by the Great 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 Wor-
cestershire Junction Railway Company to grant the facilities de-
scribed in the bill for the conveyance and accommodation, along
their Railway, and at their stations, of the carriages and waggons,
and of the passengers, animals, and goods, coining from or destined
for the intended Railways, and for the passage along their railway
of 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 :
The bill will, if need be, amend and enlarge some of the
powers and provisions of the acts following, relating to the Great
Western Railway Company : (that is to say) local and personal,
5 and 6 Wm. IV., cap. 107; 6 Wm. IV., caps. 36, 38, 77, and
79; 1 Viet., caps. 91 and 92 (1837), and 24 and 26 (1838); 2 Vict.,
cap. 27 ; 3 Viet., cap. 47 ; 3 and 4 Vict., cap. 100 ; 4 and 5 Vict., cap.
41; 5 Viet., secs. 2, cap. 28 ; 6 Viet., cap. 10 ; 7 Pict., cap. 3 ; 7 and
8 Viet., cap. 68 ; 8 and 9 Vict., caps. 40, 53, 155, 156, 184, 188, 190,
and 191 ; 9 Viet., cap. 14 ; 9 and 10 Vict., caps. 166, 181, 236, 239,
240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and 432 ; 10 and 11 Viet., caps.
60, 72, 76, 91,101, 109, 149, 154, 226, and 242 ; 11 and 12 Viet., caps.
28, 59, 74, 77, 82, 95, 130, 131, 133, 135, 158, and 159 ; 13 Vict., caps.
6 and 7 ; 13 ard 14 Vict., caps. 44, 98, and 110 ; 14 and 15 Viet.,
caps. 48 and 81; 15 and 16 Vict., caps. 125, 133, 140, 145, 147, and
168 ; and 16 and 17 Viet., caps. 121, 153, 175, and 212; it will al•o

amend and extend certain of the provisions of " The Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Act, 1847 :"
On or before the 31st day of December next, printed copies of the
intended bill Will be deposited in the Pri vete Bill Office of the House
of Commons.

Dated the 10th day of November, 1853.

W. 0. & W. HUNT.
J. W. & G. WHA.TELEY.