Great Eastern Railway Act 1862

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1862 c. ccxxiii
Year1862
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO & VICESIMO SEXTO
VICTORLE REGINvE.
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Cap.
ccxxiii.
An Act to amalgamate the Eastern Counties, the
East Anglian, the Neivmarket, the Eastern
Union, and the Norfolk Railway Companies;
and for other Purposes, [7th August 1862.]
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HERE AS by the Local Act Sixth and Seventh of William 6&7W.4-.
the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and six, relating to the *LCV1-
Eastern Counties Railway Company, the Eastern
Counties
Counties
Railway Company were incorporated: And whereas by the Local Railway.)
Acts herein-after mentioned, relating to the Eastern Counties Railway ^ec*tal of
Company, (that is to say,) First and Second of Victoria, Chapter Counties
Eighty-one; Fourth of Victoria, Chapter Fourteen; Seventh of Railway
Victoria, Chapter Nineteen ; Seventh and Eighth of Victoria, Chapters
Sixty-two and Seventy-one ; Eighth and Ninth of Victoria, Chapters
Eighty-five, One hundred and ten, and Two hundred and one ; Ninth
of Victoria, Chapter Fifty-two; Ninth and Tenth of Victoria,
Chapters One hundred and seventy-two, Two hundred and five, Two
hundred and fifty-eight, Three hundred and fifty-six, Three hundred
and fifty-seven, and Three hundred and sixty-seven ; Tenth and
Eleventh of Victoria, Chapters Ninety-two, One hundred and fifty-
six, One hundred and fifty-seven, One hundred and fifty-eight, and
Two hundred and thirty-five; Fifteenth of Victoria, Chapters Thirty,
[Local.] 42 H Thirty-
3802 25°
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26° VICTORIA, C^.ccxxiii.
The Great Eastern Railway Act, 1862.
Thirty-three, Fifty-one, and Sixty-five; Sixteenth and Seventeenth
of Victoria, Chapters Eighty-seven and One hundred and seventeen;
Seventeenth and Eighteenth of Victoria, Chapter One hundred and
fifty-three; Nineteenth and Twentieth of Victoria, Chapter Fifty-
one ; and Twenty-first and Twenty-second of Victoria, Chapter
Ninety-nine, further Powers were granted to the Eastern Counties
Railway Company, or Works authorized which, by or under the
Powers of the said Acts or some of them, now form Part of the
Undertaking of that Company : And whereas by the Local Act
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth of Victoria, Chapter Two hundred
and thirty-one, relating to the Eastern Counties Railway Company,
that Company are authorized to construct certain Railways which are
not yet made:
Eastern And whereas the Undertaking of the Eastern Counties Railway
Counties Company, including the Railways authorized by the last-mentioned
taking" ^ct'
consists
°f the following Railways, Pier, and Stations, and the
Stations, Works, and Conveniences connected therewith respectively;
that is to say,
Description
of Work.
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Eailway -
Eailway -
Eailway -
Eailways -
Eailway -
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Called in
this
Act.
Colchester Line
Thames Branch
North Woolwich
Branch.
North Woolwich
Loop Line.
Pepper Ware-
houses Branch.
Thames Branch
Fork Line.
Hackney-branches
Maldon and Brain-
tree Branches.
Loughton Line -
Enfield Branch -
Cambridge Line
Shepreth Branch
Situation of Work.
From London to Colchester
From Colchester Line at Stratford
to the River Thames, with a
Pier at the Thames Terminus.
From Thames Branch to North
Woolwich.
From North Woolwich Branch near
Bow Creek to the same Branch
near Ham Creek.
From Thames Branch to the Pepper
Warehouses of the East and
West India Dock Company.
From Thames Branch to Colchester
Line in the Parish of West Ham.
Connecting together the Colchester
Line,
the North London Railway,
Thames Branch, and Northern
and Eastern Railway.
From Colchester Line at Witham
to Maldon and Braintree.
From Northern and Eastern Rail-
way near Stratford to Woodford
and Loughton.
From Northern and Eastern Rail-
way at Edmonton to Enfield.
From Northern and Eastern Rail-
way at Newport in the County
of Essex to Cambridge, Ely, and
Brandon.
From Cambridge Line at Shelford
to the Great Northern Railway
at Shepreth.
By
-what
Act authorized.
6and7WmJV.
Cap.
106.
1 and 2 Vict.
Cap.
81. and
7 and 8 Vict.
Cap.
71.
8 and 9 Vict.
Cap.
85.
16 and 17 Vict.
Cap.
117.
9 and 10 Vict.
Cap.
367.
9 and 10 Vict
Cap.
367.
15Vict. Cap.33.
9 Vict. Cap. 52.
16 and
17
Vict.
Cap.
87.
9 and 10 Vict.
Cap.
357.
7 and 8 Vict.
Cap.
62.
10 and
11
Vict
Cap.
158.
25° & 26°
VICTORLE,
Cap
.ccxxiii.
3803
Description
of Work.
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
Railway -
-
Railway -
Railway »
Railway -
Railway -
Stations -
Pier
The
Great Eastern
Railway Act, 1862.
Called in this Act.
Newmarket Line
Long Melford
Line.
Melford and
Clare Line.
Clare and Shel-
ford Line.
Melford and Bury
Line.
Haverhill Branch
Cambridge and
St. Ives Rail-
way.
March and Wis-
beach Line.
Wisbeach St.
Peter Branch.
Peterborough
Branch.
Bishopsgate and
Stratford Sta-
tions.
Thames Pier -
Situation of Work.
From Cambridge Line at Cam-
bridge to Newmarket.
From the Colchester, Stour Valley,
Sudbury, and Halstead Railway
to Long Melford.
From Long Melford Line to Clare
From Clare Line to Cambridge
Line at Shelford.
From Melford Line to the Part of
the Eastern Union Railway,
herein-after called " Ipswich
and Bury Line," at Bury St.
Edmund's.
From Clare and Shelford Line to
the Haverhill Extension of the
Colne Valley and Halstead Rail-
way at Haverhill.
From Cambridge Line at Cambridge
to St. Ives.
From East Anglian Railway at St.
Ives to March and Wisbeach.
From the Branch of the East
Anglian Railway herein-after
called "Wisbeach Branch" at
Walsoken to the River Nene at
Wisbeach.
From Cambridge Line by Two
Junctions at Ely to London and
North-western Railway at Peter-
borough.
At Shoreditch and Stratford
At the Terminus of and in con-
nexion with the Thames
Branch.
By what
Act authorized.
9 and 10 Vict.
Cap.
172.
and
15Vict.Caps.
51.
and 65.
24 and 25 Vict.
Cap.
231.
24 & 25 Vict.
Cap.
231.
24 & 25 Vict.
Cap.
231.
24 & 25 Vict.
Cap.
231.
24 & 25 Vict.
Cap.
231.
8 and 9 Vict.
Cap.
201.
9 and 10 Vict.
Cap.356. and
15 Vict. Cap.
30.
24 and
25
Vict.
Cap.
231.
7 and 8 Vict.
Cap.
62. and
8 & 9 Vict.
Cap.
110.
9 and 10 Vict.
Cap.
258.
and
lOandllVict.
Cap.
157.
7 and 8 Vict.
Cap.
71.
And whereas the present Capital of the Eastern Counties Railway Eastern
Company consists of the following Classes and Amounts of Stock; Counties
... / f x Capital.
(that is to say,)
Class of Stock.
Extension Stock, No. 1. - - -
Extension Stock, No. 2. - - -
Six per Cent. Preference Stock
Ordinary Stock -
Preference Dividend
per Cent per Annum.
£
5
5
6
Total Amount.
£
960,000
960,000
641,817
5,854,015
£8,415,832 .

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