The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-15 00:00:00

GROUP XVII.

MazTeuEsTER AND SOUTHAMPTON AND
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lion. mr. F. Yorke thi' rnorni"
,rmueuced their engineering
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I In. k.inwitt ,lartalrell" at half-past twelve o'clock ; the
project Robertorigln'are,l.iw'llnthtlYse'rithgel‘nirtieme
The
prorhot„. in the chair.
Mr. Bidder, who
wlnred with others c
one of the to ta no in'd
by
Mr.
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Stephen-toe
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son, and that the pj
in Manchester and Sonthatnstou
the Midland Railway, all of whom ennected with
and unintetrupted communication from i'‘oirr°tl:ll"'lltaining a direct
Iris attention first called to the line In 1
Jtho south. lie had
before any prospectus was issued to the pubnen.e The Jtliy last,
d by a junCtiull with the Bristol and Birmineti line com-
mencenear Cheltenham, and am line at
Swindon, in Gloucestershire, , would run i
line to Southampton t so that
there would be aboutn a
nearly direct BA
The terminus at Southampton was r • -
miles of new railway.
independent terminus,p eiected
and would have an which he
near the quaYs,
considered advisable ; but
the two stations were intended to be eou-
nected by tramroads, to be worked by horses instead of locomotives.
to meet the wants and wishes
terminus was necessary
An independent ter
of the inhabitants, as also was a railway connexion with the existing
pier. A railway which did not accomplish this object would, in his
t
opinion, be defective. There
was no difficulty in
n carrying he
and Liverpool—the qua line
ys of
of rails along the quay, as at Yarmouth
sed several train-
the docks at the last-named town posses
structed in con-
roads similar to 'those Proposed be con
and
nexion with the terminus of the Manchester
South-
ampton. The connexion of the:terminus of this line with the South-
. ,
Western in any ether way than that proposed would have destroyed
the integral character of the project. That was one of the objections _ ,
to making theSouth-Western their terminus also. Leaving Soathamp- 1
ton the line ran tor two miles parallel with the Southampton and
Dorchester Railway, which they might use for a portion of the Man-
ehester and Southampton. The Greenwich line, for instance, and
the Croydon line, ace mmodated the London and Dover, and
the London and Brighton, by the laying down of additional
lines; so that if an arrangement were come to with the
South tVestern they might run along the Southampton and Dor-
chester to Redbridge, a distance of three miles. From Redbridge
they had adopted the course of the Andover canal as nearas possible,
and would run almost on the surface of the ground. At Romsey the
line world cross under the Bishopsteke and Salisbury
line. From Romsey persons coming from the north might take the
Rishopstoke line and proceed to Portsmouth. Taking the canal to
Andover avoided to a great extent Interference with residential pro-
Perty. The conversion of canals into railways was found a great
advantage. In the course of the line to Marlborough from Andover,
20 miles, the property of the Marquis of Aylesbury, was intersected
altogether for lb miles. That nobleman: was the largest land-
owner whose property they passed through. Ills Lordship had
assented to the line, and his eldest son, Lord Bruce, was one of the
managing committee. At Swindon it would pass under the Great
Western Railway on a level by a bridge, the span of which would be
25 feet high and 14 wide. A "girder" would be placed two feet
under the Great Western line, and the bridge scooped out.
Bridges similarly constructed were to be found on the Newcastle
and Darlington, and the Northern and Eastern at Rye-house.
The line then pursued its route by Cricklade up to Ciren-
cester. then up the Talk,: of the Chun to CottlilWad,