The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN, SHREWSBURY AND
BIRMINGHAM, AND SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER
RAILWAY COM r ANI ES.

(To provide for the Transmission, Management, Direction, and

Apportionment of Treble.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to he made to Parliament in the next Session, for an
act to enable the Great Western Railway Company, the Shrews-
bury and Cheater Railway Company, and the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Railway Company, or any two of them, until such
companies shall become united and amalgamated into one company
under the authority of Parliament, to make, and enter into, and
carry into effect such contracts or arrangements, en such terms and
conditions, and subject to Finch restrictions as may be or may have
been mutually agreed upon by or on behalf of such companies re-
spectivety, or as may be fixed, ascertained, and determined by the
said intended act, with reference to the conduct, management, inter-
change, and direction of tha traffic, or part thereof, upon their re-
spective railways or any p trt thereof, and the division and appor-
tionment of such traffic, and the tolls, rates, and charges arising there-
from, between and amongst such respective companies ; and for
enabling them to appoint ajoint c flitn iti ee for carry ing into effect any
such contracts or au .ngements, and to exercise, by means of such joint
committee or otherwise, such of the tights, powers, and privileges,
whether with retbN nee to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or
otherwise, now vested in or belonging to such companies respectively,
and all such other rights, powers, and privileges, as may be necessary
or expedient for more effectually carrying into effect any such con-
tracts or arrangements :
And provision will also be made in the said intended act for requir-
ing the Shrewsbury and Birmingham. and Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway Companies, respectively, to grant all proper and reasonable
fa-cilities for the transmission of and to transmit upon and along
their respective railways, or any part thereof, all traffic which,
having pasted over the Great Western Railway or any part thereof,
may be tendered to them respectively for transmission along their
own railways or any part thereof, or which may be tendered to
them for transmission along their own railways or any part thereof,
for the purpose of being afterwards conveyed on and along the Great
Western Railway or any part thereof, upon and subject to such rules
and regulations, and upon payment of such tolls, rates, and charges,
as shall in case of disagreement be settled by arbitration or other-
wise, or as may be fixed and determined in and by the said in-
tended act.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAIL-
WAY. - (CREW le to SHREWSBURY.)
(EXTENSION of LINE and ALTERATION of LEVEL'; USE
of SHREWSBURY and HEREFORD RAILWAY; JOINT
STATION at SHREWSBURY; AMENDMENT of ACTS).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That applcation is intended to
be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act to enable the
London and North Western Railway Company to make and main-
tain a Railway, with ell proper stations, works, and conveniences
connected therewith, in extension of the railway from Crews to
Shrewsbury, by " The Lon.aan and North Western (Crewe and
Shrewsbury Extension, &e.) Act, 1853," authorised to be made, such
extension to commence at the terminus of such branch railway, in
the ',stash of Holy Cross and St. Giles in Shrewsbury, and passing
thence from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
extra-parochial, or other places of St. Mary Shrewsbury, St. Julian
Shrewseuta , Coleham, Abbey Foregate Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and
St. Giles Shrewsbury, Stone Ward without Shrewsbury, borough of
Shrews,. try, liberties of Shrew, bury, hundred of Shrewsowy, form •
ing a Junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway in the
parish of St. Julian Shrewsbury, near to the engine-shed recently
erected on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, and terminating
oa the 'eastern side of the last mentioned railway in a field bel luting
to the Reverend Edwaid Price Owen, and occupied by Edward Par-
ker, in the parish of Saint Julian Shrewsbury, all in the county of
Salop; together with a spur or connecting line between the said in-
tended railway and the railway belonging jointly to the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Railway Company and the Shropshire Union
Railways and Canal Company, the whole of which spur or connect-
ing line will be situate in the Abbey Foregate in the said parish of
Holy Cross and Saint Giles Shrewsbury
And power wll be taken by the said intended act to enable the
London and Notch Western Rails ay Company to alter the levels of
so much of the said branch railway from Crewe to Shrewsbury as
lies between the property numbered 21 on the plans referred to in
the said act authorising the construction of the said brand" railway
in the parish of Saint Julian hrewsbury and the said terminus of
the said branch railway in the parish of Holy Cross and Saint Giles '
in ehrewsbury aforesaid, which portion of railway, the levels whereof
are so pro eased to be altered, will pass in, through and into the
several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of Dyther-
lueton, Saint Julian Shrewsbury, Saint Mary Shrewsbury, Castle
Foregate Shrewsbury, Holy Cross and -aint Giles shrewsbury,
Abbey Fore ate Shrewsbury, and Saint Michael ahrewsbury, or
some of them :
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to stop up, alter, or
divert whether temporarily or permanently all such turnpike roads,
parish roads, footw toys, streets, and other highways, rivers, streams.
brooks, sewers, pipes, canals, reservoirs, navigation, waters, and
watercourses, bridges, re'lways. or tramroads within oradjoining the
writhes, townships, extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or
some of them, which it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert
for the several purposes aforesaid, or some of them :
and it is proposed by the said intended act to autoorise the Lon-
don and North Western Railway Company, the Shrewsbury and Here-
ford Railway Company, and the Severn Valley Railway Company, or
any two of them, to enter into contracts or agreements for the joint
construction, maintenance, and ive of a station, with suitable ap-
proaches, works, and conveniences, in the townships and parishes of
Saint Julian Shrewsbury, Colehitm, the Aebey Foregate Shrews-
bury, and Holy Cress aid Saint Giles Shree sbury, er some of them.
And it is also intended by the said act to enable the London and
North Western Railway Company an I the Shrewsnury and Here-
ford Railway Company to enter into contracts and arrangements
for facilitating the transmission of traffic and tin passage of engines
and carriages of the London and North Western Railway Company
over and upon any portion of the said Shrewsbury and Hereford
Railway upon pat ment of such tolls, rates, and charges, or
min
such sutra or sums of money, either annually or in gross, and
such manner and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed
upon between the said companies, or as shall be prescribed or pro-
vided for by the said intended act :
And Notice is hereby further given, That it is intended by the said
act to enable the ].onion aid North-Western Railway Company to
purchase lands and buildings by compulsion or agreement for the
GREAT WESTERN, SHREWSBURY and paund trvaoryf tehreesxaitidmminthehndaeldl
existingraiigehl
tws oarmkds,
porrhadneygesofmthem,
any
BIRMINGH am, and SHREWSBURY and CHESTER manner connected with the lan :a and housestepir,soporsastdes,tommbdo
dtamktieens
RAILWAY COMPANIES AMALGAMATION. fur the purposes aforesaid, and also to levy ,
to alter
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN', That application is in- and to confer, vary, or extinguish ex-
tendedex-
to be made to Parliament in the next session, for upon or in respect of the said railways and works, and
isting tolls, rates, and duties,
an. act to authorise the Union and Amalgamation, from and
after such period, aid upon such terms and conditions as may have rights and privileges:
, mptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and dutie , and other
been or may hereafter be. agreed upon, or as may bey pecified in or
provided by •he said intended act, of the Shrewsbur and Binning- Londont is also Westerned, in and by the said act, to authorise the
ham Railway Company and the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and Northartyof
the
eailpwmarpey Cseosinapfaetriyesatod,apapmidy tthoeriarisecor;
porate funds to all or
either
by
shares or by mortgage, or by both
Company, or either of them, with the Great Western Railway Com- further stun of money,
pany, and for the union and consolidation into one undertaking of intended by the snide act to alter, amend, extend
such means.
And it is also
the several undertakings of the companies so united and amalga-
mated, so that all the undertakings, property, estate and effects, enlarge, or to repeall,imamli
eorrittfoemue.,,voifittlh,mprowsoemrseanefdthprelinv,isrioenlasogf the
rights, powers, and privileges, of what nature and kind soever, and several acts of Par
whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and duties, or the London and North Western Ratlwas Company (that is tote ity)-:
otherwise, vested in and belonging to or exercised and enjoyed by the an act passed in the session of Parliament held the 9th and 10t
vAneralat:tthioer
companies so united and amalgamated, severally or jointly, at theand ltiomingham Gr and
arunction, and Men-
years of the reign of her pre' entcoatinaj:ntiyes,;ntithie,.B.e. h
time of the said amalgamation, may be vested in and belong to and consolidate the Londonm
Railwayirmingnhathe Queen's PrhPiters' copies tat the local and
be exercised and enjoyed by such one united and consolidated corn-
a. d 9th Vic. chapters 36, 37, 43, 10e, 1l 1, 112.
piny, either wider the name of the Great Western Railway Com- actsches tedirstamngduthed i
pany, or under such other nam ,as may be given to or adopted by P
,193,231,232, 33, 241, 248, 259 261, 262,
such one united and consolidated company:
369, 369, 380, and 396;
as
89112
And the said act will provide for the dissolution of the said Shrew- 80,ers 8027115ac1,t51,82,
bury and Birmineham and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 32 t, 324, 331. 359,
10th and I Ith Vic. chapters 73, 107, 114,
Companies, or either of them, and the incorporation of the 118, 120, 121, 132, 139,
Shareholders therein with the Great Western Railway , 159' 161,
17f,
188,
228, 236, 270, 278, and 294; 11th and 12th
Company, or suet one united and consolidated company 4 Vic. chapters 58, 60, and 130 ; 12th and 13th Vic. chapter 74 ;
and for regulating, fixing and determining the capital 13th and loth Vic , chapter 36; 14th Vic., chapter 28; 14th and 15th
stock and borrowing powers a i the Great Western Railway Corn- Vic., chapter 94 ; 15th Vic., chapters 98 and 105 ; and 16th and 17th
pony, or such united and • consolidated company ; and the rights, Vie., chapters 97, 110, 157. 160, 161, 205, 21G, and 222:
privileges, preferences, and priorities of the different cause- of And also the several acts following relating to the Shrewsbury and
shareholders in the companies so united and amalgamated in Hereford Railwaa Company (that is to Bey) : local and personal acts
the capital stock of the Great Western Railway, or such united 9th and 10th Vic., chapter 325 ; 13th and 14th Vic., chapter 26 ; and
and consolidated company; and for the fteffiment by or for the 15th and 16th Vic. chapter 168:
Great Western Railway Company, or such united and consolidated And also " The Severn Valley Railway Act, 18534"
company, of all or some of' the contracts, agreements, or arrange- And Notice is hereby glv. n, That a published map and plans and
meets entered into by the companies severally so united and sections describing the line and levels of the said railways, and of
amalgamated, and capable of taking effect at the period of such the portion of railway the levels of which are proposed to be altered,
union and amalgamation : and of the lands to be taken for the purposes of the raid act, together
And the said act will also provide for the mortgage er other debts with a book of reference to such plans, and also a copy of this notice,
of the companies so united and amalgamated, and for the security as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited on or before
of the Yielders of' such m irtgages or bonds, and of other creditors: the 30th day of November, in the present year, with the clerk of the
and also for the future election of directors of the Great Western peace for the county of Salop, at his office at Shrewsbury in the said
Railway Company, or such united and consolidated company ; and county of Salop ; and on or before the said thirtieth day of
November
nparish
for altering the number of the directors of the Great Western Rail- a copy of so much of the plans and sections as relates to eac
and
way Company; arid also for altering, varying, and increasing the or extra-parochial place in or through which the said railways
id lands are
tolls, rates, and duties leviable bthis companies so united and anal- works are intended to be made, or in
y
and a copy
gamated, or any or either of them, from and after the date of such situate, together with a book of reference
thereto,t „ •
a Gazette, will be
union and consolidation: of this notice, as published in the " I.ondsucl
art,", I at his
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to authorise the deposited with the parish clerk of eachtra p J
arochial place with
Great Western Railway Company to guarantee to the sharehAthrs, usual place of abode, and as regards each e-
;mg parish at his usual
or any of them, in the ShrewsbarY and Birmingham Railway Com- the pariah clerk of some immediately attic,
Pant', and the Shrewsbury and Cheater Railway Company, or either P:ace of abode
Given That printed copies of the
of them, the payment of interest on their shares, at a rate to be And Notice is Hereby Further
private Hill Office of the House
agrsed on, or to make such other arrangements with such share- Proposed bill will be deposited in thefirst day of December in the
ho dens as may be., bought fit: of Commons on or before the thirty'
And it is also proposed, if need be, for the several purposes afore- ; present year.
November, 1853.
said; to alter, amend, and extend all or sonic of the powers and pro- I Detect this 4th day of , Tort
e, CAE - • „ a 1 Solicitors,
visions of the several acts following, or some of them, directly or eveiFT & WAGe a AFF,
indirectly relating to or affecting the Great Western Railway Com- 1 32, Great George-street, Westminster,
P any 4 . (that 13 to say) local and personal acts, 5 and 6 William IV., I,
.

And it is also proposed, for the several purposes aforesaid, to alter,
amend, and extend, if need be, all or some of the powers and pre-
visions of the several acts following or some of them, directly or indi-
rectly relating to or affecting the Great Western Railway Company :
(that is to say) Local and Personal Ac, s, 5 & 6 William IV., cap. 107:
6 William IV , caps. 36, 38, 77, and 79; 1 Victoria, caps. 91 and 92
(1837), and 24 and 26 (1838); 2 Victzia, cap. 27 ; 3 Victoria, cap.
47 3 and 4 'Victoria, cap. 105; 4 and 5 Victoria, cap. 41 ; 5
Victoria, Sess. 2, cap. 28 ; 6 Victoria, cap. 10; 7 Vic-
toria, cap. 3; 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 68; 8 and 9 Victoria,
caps. 40, 53, 155, 156, 184, 188, 190, and 191 ; 9 Victoria
cap. 14; 9 and 10 Victoria, c ips. 166, 181, 236, 239, 240, 278, 313,
315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and 402 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, caps. 60, 72,
76, 91, 101, 109, 149, 154, 226, and 242 ; ll and 12 Vic•
tona, caps. 28, 59, 74, 77, 82, 95. 130, 131, 133. 135, 158, and 159 ;
13 Victoria, caps. 6 and 7 ; 13 and 14 Victoria, caps. 44, 98, and
110; 14 and 15 Victoria, caps. 48 and 81 ; 15 and 16 Victoria, caps.
125, 133, 140, 145, 147, and 168; and 16 and 17 Victoria, caps. 121,
153, 175, and 212:

Also, the acts relating to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail-
way Company : (that is to say) Local and Personal Acts, 9 and 10
Victoria, caps. 307 and 308; 10 and 11 Victoria, cap. 80; 12 and 13
Victoria, cap. 85; and 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 165 :
Also, the acts relating to the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway
Company : (that is to say) Local and Personal Acts, 7 & 8 Victoria,
cap. 99; 8 & Victoria, caps. 42 & 115; 9& 10 Victoria, caps. 250,
251, 274, & 275 ; 10 & 11 Victoria, cap 141 ; 12 & 13 Victoria, cap.
55 ; 14 & 15 Victm la., cap 131 ; and 15 & t 6 Victoria, cap 146 :
And Notice is hereby further Riven, That on or before the 31st
day of De, embe- next, printed copies of the Intended bill will be de-
posited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons.
Dated this tenth day of November, 1853.
W. 0. & W. HUNT.
R. &. W. 0 ROY.
W. H. BROWN.
LOXDALE & PEELE.