The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-24 00:00:00

IMPORTANT DECISI

Room 6.
The Committee met this morning, at eleven o'clock, Lord Hard-
wicke in the chair.
EAST AND WEST TOILESEEZR.E JUNCTION
(ILATARESBOISOUGH TO TOR ).
Mr. BAINEs, with whom was Mr Knowles, opened the merits of
the line, and called Lord Harewood and Mr. Dent, who spoke to the
necessity which still existed in the district for intercommunication.
At the desire of the Cominittee Mr. Thomas Grainger, engineer
of this line, and also of the Leeds and Thirsk line, was
called, who stated that there existed a chasm in the rail-
way accommodation in the neighbourhood of Knaresborough,
that a person going from Knaresborough to York would
have to drive or walk four miles to Cripple Mills, on the Church Fen-
tim line ; and although the Leeds and Think line came near to the
Church Fenton line, the latter was 48 feet above tie level of the
others, so that no junction could be formed between thew.
It was stated in evidence that the line was supported by four-fifths
of the landowners on it.
Mr. Buss appeared to oppose it on the part of nine proprietors on
the route.
But the Committee, after having the room cleared, considered that
no residential injury was done, and that it would be unnecessary to
enter into the question of traffic, as the line was supported by so
large a number of the proprietors, the Chairman expresing It as his
opinion, that it would be one of tile best lines in the district, beating
the others hollow.

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The room was again cleared,
The CHAIUMAN told the parties when re-admitted that the Bill
had passed the Committee without amendment, and would be re-
ported on to the House.

HOubL oE
GROUP 11.
The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised in this group re-assembled at the tsual hour this morning,
Lord Morpeth in the chair.
SOUTH DEVON EXTENSIONS.
The Committee decided this mizning that the preamble to this
Bill had beat proved, so tar as the Dartmouth, Sutton Pool, Mill-
bay, and Ncwbasset branches were concerned, but not proved as re-
garded the Plymouth and Tavistock branch.
The Committee then proceeded with the consideration of the
clauses. The whole of them were agreed to with some trifling
amendments, and the Chairman was directed to report the Bill ac-
cordingly.

TAW VALE EXTENSION.
Mr. Sergeant SURF= opened the case for the promoters of this
line. The object of the Bill was to make a railway from Creditors to
Barnstaple, an important western sea-port, with 15 acres of docks,
and thus form a direct communication by means of the
Exeter and Crediton, the Bristol and Exeter, and the Great
Western Railway with London on the one side, and with
south and central Devon on the other, through the medium of the
South Devon line and its extensions. The length of the line was
thirty miles and seven. furlongs, and its cost was estimated
at 157,0001., or 16,0001. per mile. It would accommodate
a population of upwards of 61,474, and prove a source
of considerable advantage to a large and increasing agricultural and
goods traffic. All the schemes competing with it had been lost on
standing orders, and the line came before the Committee in the
favourable position of being only opposed b 3 a few landholders, and
with only cute case of residential injury. The engineer-
ing features of the line . were equally favourable, for he
believed, while it was almost perfectly straight, the severest gradient
on the line was 1 in 137, and some short time ago a precisely similar
line was selected by Mr. Brunel, for accommodating the saint dis-
trict. The line had another, advantage to which hemust direct the at-
tention of the Committee. The Committee were no doubt aware that
there was an exceedingly extensive traffic carried on between Cork and
Waterford and Bristol, but owing to the existence of shifting sands
in the Bristol. Channel, upwards et twelve hours was lost in waiting
for the flood of the tide before vessels corning from Ireland could get
up to that port. Nosy this line would do away with that loss of time,
and the consequence was. the llue was strongly supported its the
sister kingdom.