Great Western Railway Act 1837
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1837 c. xci |
AKN0 PRIMO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
Cap.
xci.
An Act to alter the Line of the Great Western
Railway, and to amend the Acts relating thereto.
[3d July 1837.]
W
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years
of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the
Fourth, intituled An Act for making a Railway from 5&6W.4W
Bristol to join the London awe? Birmingham Railway wear London, cJ07.
to be called " The Great Western Railway" with Branches therefrom
to the Towns of Bradford and Trowbridge in the County of Wilts:
And whereas another Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign
of His said Majesty, intituled An Act to alter the Line of the Great
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Western Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto: And
whereas it is expedient that certain Portions of the Line of the- said
Railway should be further altered, and that the said Company should
be empowered to take additional Lands for the Purposes of Depots
and Approaches to the said Railway, and also that some of the Pro^
visions of the said recited Acts should be amended and enlarged; but
the Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Authority of
Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be
enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
fLocal! 36 L Authority
extended to
this Act.
3262 V VICTORIA Cap.xci.
Powers of Authority of the same, That all the Powers, Authorities, Provisions,
*eJ^^Acts Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Payments, Exemptions, Remedies,
Regulations, Clauses, Matters, and, Things contained in the said re-
cited Acts or either of them (except such of them or such Parts
thereof respectively as are by the lastly recited Act or by this Act re-
pealed, altered, or otherwise provided for,) shall extend and be con-
strued to extend to this Act and to the several Works and Things
hereby authorized or required to be made and done, and shall operate
and be in force in respect to the Objects and Purposes of this Act as
fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as if the
same Powers, Authorities, Provisions, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures,
Payments, Exemptions, Remedies, Regulations, Clauses, Matters, and
Things were repeated and re-enacted in this Act.
Power to II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
onLilwa"ylie ComPany and they are hereby empowered to make the Alterations
in certain herein-after mentioned of or in the Line of the-said Railway as autho-
Cases.
rized or directed by the said recited Acts, and to make and maintain
the said Railway and Works in the Line or Course, and upon, across,
under, or over the Lands delineated on the Plans or described in the
Books of Reference deposited and to be deposited with the several
Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Berks,
Oxford,
Wilts, and
Somerset as herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) from a certain
Point on the Main Line in the Parish of Sonning and County of
Berks to a certain other Point on the said Line in the Parish of
Basildon in the same County -, also from a certain Point on the said
Line in the Parish of Uffington in the County of Berks to a certain
other Point on the said Line in the Parish of Lydiard Tregoz other-
wise Liddiard Tregooze in the County of Wilts ; also from a certain
Point on the said Line in the Parish of Chippenham in the County
last aforesaid to a certain other Point on the said Line in the Parish
of Bathwick in the County of Somerset; also from a certain Point on
the said Line in the Parish of Bathampton to a certain other Point
on the said Line in the Parish of Bathford, both in the County of
Somerset; also from a Point in the Line of the said Branch Railway
in the Parish of Melksham to another Point on the said Line in the
Parish of Broughton
Oifford,
both in the County of Wilts; such new
Line of Railway passing, as to the first of such Deviations, from, in,"
through, or into the several Parishes, Townships, and Extra-parochial
or other Places of Sonning, Early, Saint Mary's and Saint Lawrence
Reading, Tilehurst, Purley, Pangbourn, and Basildon, or some of
them, in the County of Berks, and Whitchurch in the Counties of
Berks and
Oxford,
or one of them; as to the second of such Devi-
ations, passing from, in, through, or into the several Parishes, Town-
ships,
and Extra-parochial or other Places of Uffington, Baulking,
Woolston, Complon Beauchamp, Knighton, Shrivefiham, Longcott,
Beckett, Ashbury, Odstone> and Bourton, or some of them, in the
County of Berks; Highworth, Sevenhampton, South Marston, Stanton
Fitzwarre?i, Stratton Saint Margaret's, Upper Stratton, Swindon,
Eastcott, Westcott, Rodbourn Cheney, Even Swindon, Moredon, Hay-
don,
Lydiard Tregoz otherwise Liddiard Tregooze, Lydiard Millicent,
Shaw, and Wroughton, or some of them, in the County of Wilts; as
to the third of such Deviations, passing from, through, or into the
several
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