London, Chatham and Dover Railway Act 1863
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1863 c. cciv |
ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO & VICESIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORLE REGIN.E
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Cap,
cciv.
An Act to enable the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company to extend their Railway to
Greenwich; to improve the Communication with
the Victoria Station; and to execute certain
other Works in connexion with their Under-
taking. [28th July 1863.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company (who are herein-after referred to
as the Company) should be authorized to extend their
Railway through. Pechham to
Greenwich,
and to construct the other
Railways and Works herein-after specified : And whereas by virtue of
certain Acts of Parliament, and certain Agreements confirmed by Par-
liament, the Company, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company (who are herein-after referred to as " the Brighton
Railway Company "), and the Great Western Railway Company, are
now using the Undertaking of the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway
Company, in consideration as regards the Use by the Company of a
perpetual Rent payable to the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway
Company, and it has been found that the said Undertaking is inadequate
for the Accommodation of the Traffic of the said Companies, and it is
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The London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Act, 1863.
expedient that the Company should be enabled to enlarge the Victoria
Station, and to construct new Lines of Approach to the same: And
25
&26Vict, whereas by "The
South-eastern
Railway (Tunbridge and Dartford Lines)
c. xcvi. ^c^ igg^" the
South-eastern
Railway Company are authorized to carry
their Railway over the Railway of the Company in the Parish of
Bromley in Kent, and it is expedient that Provisions should be made for
the Protection of the Railway of the Company at such Crossing: And
whereas Plans and Sections of the Railways and Works authorized by
this Act showing the Lines and Levels
thereof,
and a Plan of the Land
intended to be taken for the Purposes of the said Station, and Books of
Reference to the Plans containing the Names of the Owners and Lessees,
or reputed Owners and Lessees, and of the Occupiers of the Lands to be
taken under the Powers of this Act, have been deposited with the Clerks
of the Peace for Kent, for Surrey, and for
Middlesex
: And whereas the
Purposes aforesaid cannot be accomplished 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 Temporal,
and Commons, in this-present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, as follows:
8&9Vict. 1. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," "The Railways
co.18.
&
20.
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and " The Lands Clauses Consolidation
23
&24Viet. Acts Amendment Act, I860," shall be incorporated with and form Part
c
106.
in- of this Act, and the Expression " Court of competent Jurisdiction "
corpora e . w^en use(j
jn
^jg Act shall mean any Court wherein the Debt or Demand
with respect to which the Expression is used could be recovered if the
Debt or Demand were a common Simple Contract Debt, and not a Debt
created by Statute.
Power to 2. It shall be lawful for the Company, subject to the Provisions in
Eailwa this and the incorporated Acts contained, to make and maintain the
according to Railways and Works herein-after described, with all proper Sidings,
deposited Approaches, Stations, Works, and Conveniences, upon the" Lands
delineated on the said Plans and described in the said Books of
Reference, and according to the Levels described on the said Sections,
and the Company may enter upon, take, and use such of the said
Lands as shall be necessary for such Purposes, and for the other
Purposes of this Act.
Describing 3. The Railways and Works authorized by this. Act are :
aiways. -^ ^ ^pec]ciiam Lma) ^ Railway commencing by a Junction with
the Railway No. 2. of the London,
Chatham,
and Dover Railway
{Metropolitan
Extensions) at the Bridge carrying the same Railway
over Sutherland Square South in the Parish of Saint Mary
Newington, and terminating by a Junction with the authorized
Crystal
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London,
Chatham,
and
Dover
Railway Act, 1863.
Crystal
Palace and South London Junction Railway at the West
Side of
Gordon
Road in the Parish of Saint Giles
Camberwell
in
the County of Surrey :
No.
2.
[Greenwich
Line.) A Railway commencing by a Junction with
the authorized
Crystal
Palace and South London Junction Railway
in a Field numbered 140, in the Parish of Saint
Giles
Camberwell,
on the Plan of the said Railway deposited with the Clerk of the
Peace for Surrey in
November
1861, and terminating on the South-
west Side of Crooms Hill in the Parish of
Greenwich,
near
Croom's
Hill Grove:
No.
3. (Victoria Bridge Extension.) A Railway commencing in the
Parish of
Clapham
by a Junction with the London,
Chatham,
and
Dover Railway where it crosses the Wandsworth
Road,
and
terminating in the Parish of Saint Mary Battersea, near the
Southern Abutment of the
Victoria Bridge
:
No.
4. (Victoria Station Extension.) A Railway commencing at the
Terminus of Railway No. 3, carried across the River Thames, and
terminating in the Parish of Saint
George
Hanover
Square,
in the
Victoria
Station, on the North Side of the
Belgrave
Road:
No.
5. A Railway wholly in the Parish of Saint Mary Battersea,
commencing by a Junction with the Railway of the Brighton
Railway Company at a Point
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Yards to the South of the South
Side of the Prince of Wales Bridge, and terminating by a Junction
with the said Railway (No. 4.) at or near the Commencement
thereof:
No.
6. A short Line of Railway, entirely in the Parish of
Sittingbourne,
commencing in the Station of the Company, running parallel to the
existing Railway of the Company, and terminating by a Junction
with the Sittingbourne and
Sheerness
Railway at the Terminus
thereof:
No.
7. A Roadway in the Parish of
Gillingham
in Kent, commencing
at and out of the Road near the New Brompton Station leading to
Gillingham,
passing through Land belonging to the Reverend Doctor
Page, and terminating at or" near the Station of the Company at
New Brompton near Chatham: Provided always, that within Six
Months after the said Road shall have been completed and used for
public Traffic the same shall be dedicated to the Public and become
a public Highway, and the Company shall deliver up the same in
good Repair to the Control or Management of the Surveyors or other
Authorities having the Control of the Roads in the Parish or District
where the said new Road is situate; and from and after the said
As to closing
Period a certain Footpath in the same Parish, leading from the Q^g^f
Railway Station of the Company to
Church
Street in Gillingham,
shall be closed, and all Rights of Way or assumed Rights of
Way, or other Easements with respect to the same, shall absolutely
cease.
4.
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