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London, England, 1846-06-25 00:00:00

GROUP. V,

nucitzNoitaivlsmizia RAILWAYS MRING

TO BANBURY).

The Committee met this day at eleven ; Lord Stanley in the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN at their meeting this morning intimated to the
promoters of the case that he had communicated with Lord :shaftee-
bury, and the Committee were of opinion ti.at the present Bill
was much at th • mercy of the Great West rn and the
Oxford and Rugby lints. Originally the Bill was for
a railway from Tring to Banbury, and contemplated
no junction with the OxtOrd and Rugby lane; taking, therefore, no
power to form such a junction as was now proposed, a proposal,
therefore, which the Committee could not brpossibility sanction,
he said, if the railway had been described in the lilt as from the
Oxford and Rugby line to the town of Banbury, it might have been
allowed them to construct the j•ine, ton by inclined sidings, under the
sanction o' the section of the general Act referring to accommodati
works ; but it was not so, it was simply a railway from Tring to
Banbury.
Mr. ACTIN said he did not put the case forward as an accommo-
dation work, for these words of the general Act referred to the ac-
commodation to be afforded to landowners, and landowners only. He
subm'tted, therefore, first, that in point of fact the proposed line
came into the neighbourhood of the Rugby Railway, so that c als
could be lifted off that and upon their line, and carried through
Buckinghamsh re ; and, secondly, under the words of the general
Act, " shall have power to execute the railway and all works neces-
sary thereto," that they had power to tOrns the proposed junction,
though no section of the same had been deposited, which lie sub-
mitted was not made ne,essary by the Standing Orders of their
Lordships' House.

The CHAIRMAN replied, that if the railway had been from the Ox-
ford and Rugby line to Banbury, the promoters might have had a
case, notwithstanding .the deviation from the Parliamentary levels.
But they deviated from the levels to effect a junction, for which they
did not take power in their Bill.
➢ir. Robert Stephenson having been recalled this morning, in re-
ference to a question put to him yesterday, put in the following
statement of the capital of the lines in connexion with the London
and Birmingham Railway, and intended to supply the Warwickshire
district :

Tring and Banbury
Bletchley and Oxtord
Weedon and Worcester -
Rugby and Leamington -
Hampton and Banbury
Hampton and Abchurchs
'Birmingham Extensions •

- 4:900,000
- 550,000
- 1,366,000
- 300,000

- 1,400,000
- 3m0,a0

Total - - - - - 4,800,000
Mr. TALBOT then addressed the Committee against the line, and
was proceeding, when
The Citstatuot Intimated that It would be unnecessary to proceed
further, as the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the
Bill was not proved, and that the line ought not to pass.

HOLLE OF COMMONS.
GROUP 11.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised In this group, re-assembled at the usual 11:itir this morn-
ing; Lord Morpeth in the chair.
TAW VALE EXTENSION.

The whole of the morning was occupied with general tramc evl
deuce in favour of the line, .

GROUP XVI.II

The Committee met at the usual houi'; B. )benison, chairman.
LONDON, HEN 3. ET, AND BATH DXRECT.

Several witnesess were examined, whose t vidence went to show
the want of railway accommodation in the diatri6t through which the
line proposes to pass.

GROUP XXXIII.

The Committee on this group met to-day, at half past twelve
o'clock, in Room .No. 24 (Grand Corridor). Prese.a, Sir Robert
Ferguson, the Marquis of Worcester, Viscount Newry, Mr. Smollett,
and Mr. Fellowes.

They resumed the hearing of evidence on the Warwickshire and
London lines—

WORCESTER AND WEEDON.
HAMPTON AND BANBURY.
UA tviP I'ON AND ASHCHURCII.

Mr. COCKBURN, Q. C., for the Great Western, called witnesses in
favour of the compitting line, the

BIRMINGHAM AND oxiromm JUNCTION.
Lord Hatherton, being examined by Mr. CocitauaN, stated that
it would be of the greatest advantage to the mineral district, through
which the proposed railways would pa-s, to have two competing
lines, and not to be dependent on the London and Birmingham Rail=
way. The town of Birmingham had a population of two hundred
thousand, and was entitled to have a competing line.
Cross-examined by Mr. LANE Although one of the competing
lines would be seven tidies shorter than the other and somewhat
cheaper, that was not a reason for rejecting the competing line. All
the inconveniences to the public were enhanced upon those lines
which had come Into the hands cf Mr. Hudson.