The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LIST OF PLANS DEPOSITED AT THE PRIVATE
BILL-OFFICE. -
The following is a perfect list of the lines, 721 in number,
that have deposited the necessary plans, sections, books of
reference; lists of owners, lessees, and occupiers; estimates,
and copies of subscription contract, in the Private Bill-office,
and may be looked upon as the best guarantee yet given of
the sincerity and good faith of the respective promoters, so
far as any intended ulterior proceedings are concerned. The
notices in the Gazette, and lodgments with the Board of
Trade, though important and indispensable processes, were
relatively unimportant and inexpensive compared with the
routine of the Private Bill-office and the 31st of December,
when, in addition to the deposits with the Private Bill-office,
notices have to be served simultaneously on every occupant
and landowner on the route of line, with every parish-clerk
in England, schoolmaster in Scotland, and postmaster in
Ireland, stationed in the various parishes. The expense of
this process may be readily conceived when it is known that,
besides the outlay in preparation of the notices, large numbers
of persons have to be paid for serving them, the solicitor
being, it is understood, entitled to U. fee for every service
effected. According, moreover, to the scale of fees, the Speaker
has 5/. for every private Bill, 10s. is demanded for entering a
private Bill, with the names and addresses of the Parliamentary
agent and solicitor, and the name of the committee clerk, and
6s. Bd. for receiving and taking care of the books, plans, esti-
mates, and other documents. The Private Bill-office, however,
is only introductory to the more trying ordeal of deposits with
the Exchequer, which, preparatory to petition for leave to pro-
ceed, can alone be looked to as a conclusive criterion. It is
observable that the schemes enumerated below are by about
one-half numerically less than those originally registered,
amounting, if we remember rightly, to about 1,400, and by
about fifty-seven less than those deposited with the Board of
Trade:

1. Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin
2. Airdrie and Bathgate Junction
3. Airdrie and Coatbridge
4. Alford Valley
5. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern
Junction
6. Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush
7. Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Extension
8. Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Junction
9. Athlone and Roscommon
10. Aust Bridge
11. Axholme, Gainsborough, Goole and York, and North
Midland Junction
12. Aylesbury and Thame Junction
13. Ayrshire and. Caledonian Junction
14. Ayrshire and Galloway.
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15. Ballinasloe, Castlebar, and Westport
16. Ballochney
17. Ballyshannon and Lough Erne Railway and Steam-boat
Company
18. Bandon and Bantry
19. Banffshire
20. Banffshire Extension
21. Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction
22. Bath, Wells, and Exeter Junction
23. Bedford and Cambridge Extension
24. Belfast and Ballymena and Derry and Coleraine Junction
25. Belfast and County Down
26. Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric
27. Berks and Hants (Hungerford Extension and Radatock
Colliery Lines)
"28. Berwickshire Central Junction
29. Bideford and Tavistock
30. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Ruabon, and Vale of Llan-
gollen
31. Birkenhead, Holyhead, and Mold Extension
32. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
33. Birmingham and Bristol (Malvern Lines)
31. Birmingham and Leicester Direct
35. Birmingham and Manchester Direct
36. Birmingham and Oxford Junction
37. Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Ex•
tension)
38. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester
39. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley
40. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley
41. Blackburn and Preston
.'42, Blackburn,Chorley, and-L' of
,30. Blackburn, Clitheroe, and No tth Western Junction
'44. Blackburn, Darwen, and Belton (Bury Branch' and
•. Bolton Deviation)
45. Boston, Newark, and Sheffield
46. Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham and
Grantham Junction
47. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham
48. Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland
49. Brecon and Merthyr Tidvil Junction
50. Bridge of Wear and Port Glasgow
51. Bridgewater and Minehead (Railway and Pier)
52. Brighton and Chichester (Bognor Branch)
53. Brighton and Chichester (Littlehampton Branch)
54. Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch)
55. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
56. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Eastbourne Branch)
57. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Hailsham Branch)
58. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Newhaven and Sea-
ford Branch)
59. Brighton, Lewes, and Tunbridge Wells Direct (Hal-
lett's Line)
60. Bristol and Virmingham (Bath Line)
61. Bristol and Birmingham (Gloucester and Stonehouse
Junction)
62. Bristol and Dover Direct Junction
63. Bristol and English Channels Direct Junction
64. Bristol and Exeter (Crewkerne Branch)
65. Bristol and South Wales Junction •
66. Bristol and English Channels Connexion
67. British and Irish Union
68. Buckinghamshire (Harrow to Aylesbury)
69. Buckinghamshire (Oxford to Bletchley Junction)
70. Buckinghamshire (Tring to Banbury)
71. Buxton, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Crewe (Buxton,
Macclesfield, and Congleton line)
72. Buxton, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Crewe (Congleton
and Crewe line)

73. Caermarthen Mineral
74. Caledonian (Carlisle Deviation and Dumfries-Aire
Branches)
75. Caledonian and Dumbartonshire
76. Caledonian Extension
77. Caledonian Extension (Branch from Ayr by Old Cum-
flock to Muirkirk)
78. Caledonian, Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Rail-
way purchase and Branches
79. Caledonian (Glasgow Termini and Lanarkshire Branches)
80. Caledonian (Mid-Lothian Branches)
81. Caledonian Northern Direct
82. Caledonian, Polloc and Govan, and Clydesdale Junction
Railways Amalgamation, and Clydesdale Junction
Deviation
83. Cambrian Grand Junction
84. Cambridge and Colchester Junction
85. Cambridge and Lincoln Extension, and Lincoln, York,
and Leeds Junction
86. Cambridge and Oxford
87. Canterbury and Herne Bay
88. Carnwarth and West Linton
89. Central Kent
90. Central Monklands
91. Chelmsford and Bury
92. Chelmsford, Malden, and Blackwater
93. Cheltenham and Oxford
94. Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction
95. Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction.
96. Chester and Birkenhead (Widening and Branches)
97. Chester and Holyhead Branches
98. Chester and Manchester Direct
99. Chichester and Bognor
100. Clitheroe Junction
101. Clonmel and Youghal
102. Clonmel, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow
103. Clydesdale Junction Railway Deviation, and Po De
and Govan Railway Amalgamation
104. Cockermouth and Workington Extension
105. Colchester and Stour Valley
106. Cork and Bandon, and Kinsale Junction
107. Cork, Ballincollig, and Macroom
108. Cork, Blackrock, and Passage
109. Cork and Dublin Direct
110. Cork and Fermoy Direct
111. Cork, Limerick, and Galway, first division (Chai:ltvill e

to Limerick)
112. Cork, Macroom, and Killarney
113. Cork, Middleton, and Youghal
114. Cork and Passage
115. Cork and Waterford
116. Cork, Passage, and Kinsale
117. Cornwall
118. Cornwall and Devon Central
119. Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
120. Croydon, Thames Tunnel,
D and Blackwell Junction.
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121. Darlington and Hartlepool
122. Dartmouth, Brixham, Torhay,Exeter, and North Devon
Junction
123. Deeside
124. Derby and Crewe
126. Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Juncti an •
126. Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Ju action
127. Direct East and West Junction (Kidderminster to Leo-
minster)