The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-25 00:00:00

PETITION OF THE LON,
TION RAILWAY
The humble Petition of the L0n...„,n Grand ,
Railway Company, under their common seal,
Showeth,—That your petitioners are incorporated by:
' Act of Parliament passed in the sixth and seventh
years of the reign of his late Majesty King 'William the
Fourth, intituled, " An Act for making a Railway to,
join the London and Birmingham Railway at or new:
the Regent's Canal, in the parish of St. Pancras, in lb
county of Middlesex, and proceed from thence to Skit:
ner-street, in the city of London, to be called " 'Ti,
London Grand Junction Railway Company," whici
contained the provisions usually inserted in Acts of tills
like nature.
That considerable portions of the property requirett
for the purposes of the said Act were purchased andl
agreed to be purchased by your petitioners, and thin
works of the said Railway were commenced under th.
provisions thereof, but, from the pressure of the time 6
and other inevitable circumstances, your petitioners wer a
prevented from proceeding therewith, in consequenc
whereof the time limited by the Act for the compulsote
purchasing of the land expired, and your petitioner3i
were unable to prosecute the said works.
That your petitioners, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-eight, applied to Parliament for arts
Act extending the time for the completion of the pur
chases of the property required for the said Railway
but, in consequence of a determined opposition by seve
ral other Companies, your petizionere did not obtainv•l
an amended Act.
That your petitioners have seen, from the proceed
' ings of your Hon. House, that several Addresses ti ,1
her Majesty have been agreed to by your Hon. Houser
praying that her Majesty might be pleased to diacclA
certain engineers to report on the merits of certaita
railways, as regards their connexion with, and tile com-
parative facilities of communication between, the menu-
facturisig districts of Lancashire, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
and the North of Ireland, and London, end that :her •
Majesty has been pleased to appoint such engineers., as
prayed by your Hen. House.
That your petitioners accordingly, applied to, and sub-
mitted a plan and section of their line, coupled with a
einent thereof, to such engineers, believing that your
P t
t i
y° that line was constructively included in suck ,
lineshad been so referred to the said engineers
bu e
'itioners received a communication from
such enginceee. .
acknowledgieg, the receipt of such plan
toal'era' ptb
and section and .efauelnent, but doubting filch- power to
enter into the quesion without a specierautlimit3,.
That your petitioners always have beliered„vid still
do believe:-tlait their said railway would of itself, but a
fortiori in connexion with the other objects referred to
the a :id engineers, be of great public advantage, and
ought to-be completed, for the following, amongst other
reasons :
First, Thvt it joins the London and Birmingham
Railway at Camden-town, and terminates at the tap of
Snow-hill, in the centre of the city of London.
Second, That it is close to Smithfield, and within•
three hundred and fifty yards of the General Post-otricc,
and can with facility be extended thereto.
at the statieu at Paddington, and the Northern and
E,stern Riitway at Tottenham..
the Great
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Fifth,6stern Rail-
tion Railwav of tile width of the Great
other y be laid within them for the traffic I
way, rails ma
of the Birmingham at 4 other railways.
Great West-
Sixth, That the present termini of the
ern, Birmiogli,Ant, and the Northern and Eastern
Tina, b' Jeying the rails of the Grand,
Rail-
ways,June-
are iwonvenient.
are restricted, by their Act of PATlOlllerit.: from bring-
Seventh, That the Birmingham' Ra:-.lway Company
ing goods nearer to their station af ,Roston square
than Camden-town.
Railway
Eighth, That the London Grand Junctic;.4
..
will give to these Railways a terminus, both folP goods
ar.d p”ssengers, in the centre of trade anti eommero, t,
Ninth, That it has been authorized by Parliamek
and declared to be of great public advantage, ftE a.%
means of connecting the important Nortinva Andt
Eastern towns with the heart of the Metropolis.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your ifm:
nourable House, that an Address may be presonteei to,
her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously '
pleased to direct. that the engineers appointed in put- t
suance of the Addresses of your Honourable House of
the 14th day of August last do, in addition to tite
Reports thereby and by subsequent Addresses required
to be made, report ou the merits of the said London
Grand Junction Railway Company as regards its coo-
ti;xion with, and the facilities of communication thereby~
afforded to, the manufacturing districts of the North of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the heart of the
Metropolis, or such other Report, on the merits of the
said Grand Junction Line, as to the said engineers
shall seem fit,
And your petitioners will ever pray, &c.