Manchester and Birmingham Railway Act 1837
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1837 c. lxix |
ANN0
PRIM0
VICTORI&
REGINZ.
Cap.
lxix.
An
Act
for making a Railway from
Mucnchester
to
join the Grand Junction Railway in
the
Parish
of
Chebsey
in
the
County
of
Stuflrd,
to
be
called
The
Munchester
aid
Birmiyghum
Railway,”
with
certain Branches therefrom.
[30th
Juize
1837.1
HEREAS the making
of
a Railway from
Manchester
in the
County
of
Lancaster
to
unite with
the
Grand Junction
Railway at
or
near the Hammer Houses in the Parish
of
Che6sey
in the County
of
Staford,
with Branches therefiom to
Mac-
clesjield
in the County
of
Chester,
and to
Crewe
in the same County,
to unite
at
Crewe
aforesaid with the said Grand Junction Railway,
would be
of
great public Advantage
:
And whereas the Queen’s most
Excellent Majesty in right of the Crown is or claims to be seised
of
the
Manor and Borough
of
Macdesfield
in the County
of Chester,
and in
right of Her Duchy
ofLancaster
is interested in certain Property
on
the Line
of
the proposed Railway
:
And whereas the several Persons
herein-after named, with other Persons, are willing
at
their own
Ex-
pence to carry into execlition the said Undertaking, but the same can-
not 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 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia-
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R
ment
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VICTORIB,
Cap.Ixix.
Proprietors
ment assembled, and by the Authority
of
the same, That
Samuel
incorporaLed.
Allsop,
Jonathan Andrew, Joseph Armstrong,
Charles
Axon, Robert
Barbour, Alexander Bower, Benjamin Braidley, John Brooks,
George Royte Cliappell, John Chippendall, Richard Collins, Jaines
Durham, Joseph Chesborough Dyer, Jaines Gnrrett Frost,
Williaiit
Garnett, James Hall, James Holt Heron, William Hopes, Cephas
Howard, Rupert Ingleby, John Bulkeley Johnson,
William
Labrey,
Matthew Lyon, George Peel, George Sandars, Robert Chapman
Sharp,
Thomas
Sharp,
Thomas Steel
junior,
Samuel
Stocks,
Edward
Swanwick, Richard
Sykes,
Henry Tootal,
Thomns
Walmley,
Anthony
Ward,
John
Webb, Joshua Procter Westhead,
John
Windsor,
and
all
other Persons and Corporations who have subscribed their
Names and affixed their Seals
to
Two several Subscription Contracts,
the one bearing Date the Eleventh Day of
March
One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-six, and purporting to be entered into by
a
Company then intended to be established by the Style of the
“
South
Union Railway Company,” and the other bearing Date the Third
Day
of
January
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, pur-
porting to be entered into by
a
Company then intended to be estab-
lished by the Style
of
the
(‘
Manchester, Cheshire,
and
Xta$brdslti?.e
Railway Company,”
or
who shall hereafter subscribe towards the
Undertaking
by
this Act authorized, and their several and respective
Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall be and they
are hereby united into
a
Company for making and maintaining the
Railway, and for executing the other Works by this Act authorized
according to the Provisions and Restrictions herein-after mentioned,
and for that Purpose shall be One Body Corporate by the Name
and Style of
(‘
The
Manchester
and
Birminglznin
Railway Company,”
and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and
a
Common
Seal,
ancl
by that Name
shall
and may sue and be sued, and also
sliall have Power and Authority to purchase and hold Lands, Tene-
ments, and Hereditaments to them and their Successors
and
Assigns,
for the Use of the said Undertaking, without incurring any
of
the
Penalties or Forfeitures
of
the Statutes of Mortmain, and shall have
and exercise all such other Powers and Authorities
as
are herein-after
given, or as may be necessary for carrying the several Purposes
herein-after mentioned into full and complete Effect.
Interprets-
tiorr
of
.Art.
11.
And be it further enacted,
That
in the Construction
of
this
&4ct every Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend
and be applied to several Persons or Things
as
well
as
one Person or
Thing, and every Word importing the Plural Number shall extend
and be applied to one Person or Thing
as
well as several Persons or
Things
;
and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall
extend and be applied
to
a
Peniale as well as
a
Male
;
and the Word
‘‘
Lands” shall extend
to
Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Here-
ditaments of any Tenure
;
and where the Word
“
Company”
is
used,
the
same sliall be understood
to
mean the said
JImzcIiester
and
Bir-
?)12hgh72
Railway Company
;
and where the Word
“
Railway
”
is
used, the same shall be understood to mean the Railway and Branches
and other Works intended to be executed by virtue
of
this Act
;
and
the
Word
‘6
Corporation” shall be understood to mean any Body
Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate,
Civil
or Ecclesiastical, Aggregate or
Sole,
1"
VICTORIB,
Cap.
Ixix.
2135
Sole, unless
in
any of the Cases aforesaid
it
be otherwise specially
provided, or there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant
to
such Construction,
111.
And be
it
fbrther enacted, That, subject as herein-after men-
C~I~PW
tioned,
it
shall be lawful for the said Company and they are hereby
~om~~~r~~e
empowered to make and maintain
a
Railway, with Warehouses, Wharfs,
Railway
al,,j
Stations, Landing Places, Bridges, Approaches, and suitable and com-
other
\Vorks.
modious Buildings, Erections, and Works, with all proper Conve-
niences connected therewith, for the Passage of locomotive and other
Engines, Coaches,
C
haises, Waggons, Carts, and other Carriages, and
for fixing stationary Engines, and landing, depositing, and warehousing
of Goods and Conveyance of Passengers in the Line or Course, and
upon, across, under, or over the Lands delineated on the Plan and
described in the Book of Reference herein-after directed to be depo-
sited with the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties
ofLamaster,
Chester,
and
Staford
;
that
is
to say, such Railway to commence in
Store Street
at or near the
London
Road
End
thereof in the Township
and Parish
ofManchester
in the County
oflamaster,
and to terminate
by a Junction with the Grand Junction Railway at or near the
Hammer Houses in the Parish of
Chebsey
in the County of
Staford;
and
also
to make and maintain a Branch Railway from and out of the
said Railway to commence at
or
near
Edgeley Street
in the Parish and
Township of
XtocJcport
in the said County
of
Chester,
and to terminate
at
or near
Brunswick Street
in the Parish of
Prestbury
and Township
of
Macclespeld
in the said County of
Chester
;
and also to make and
maintain another Branch Railway from and out of the said first-men-
tioned Railway to commence
at
or near to a Place called
Gatley Green,
in the Township of
Nether Alderley
in the Parish of
Nether Alderley
otherwise
Alderley
in the County of
Chester,
and to terminate by
a
Junction with the Grand Junction Railway
at
or near to a certain
Place in the Township
of
Ci'ezoe
in the Parish of
Barthornley
in the
said County of
Chester,
adjoining
to
where the Grand Junction
Railway intersects or is intended to intersect the Turnpike Road
between
Sandbach
and
Nantwich
in
the same County
of
Chester;
which said Railway and Branches will be respectively made and
pass
from,
in, through, and into the several Parishes, Townships, Extra-
parochial and other Places following
;
that
is
to say,
Mancliester,
Ardwick,
Gorton,
Newton,
Rushulnae,
Levenslzulnze, Burnage,
Heaton Norris,
or
some of them, in the County
of
Lancaster
;
Xtock-
port, Bramall,
Norbury,
Prestbury, Poynton, Poynton
and
Wortlt,,
Adlington, Tytherington, Butley, Maccles$eld, Checidle, Cheadle
Bulkeley, Clieadle Moseley,
Handforth-cum-
Bosden, Wilmslow,
Bol-
/in
fee,
Po
wnallfee,
Fulsliaw,
Cliorley,
Alderley, Nether Alderkey,
Chelford, Capesthorne,
Old
Withington, Siddington,
ikharton,
Astbury,
Sonaerford Booths, Hulnae
Wall,field,
Congletom,
Newbold
Astbury,
,Irlbreton-curn-Alcumlow,
OddRode, CiLurcIzLawton, Barthondey, Crewe,
Haslington, Coppenhall,
Church
Coppenhall,
Jlonks
Coppenhall,
War~n~igIwn,
Elton, Sandbach, Bradwall-cuna- Hollin,~,
CItzirch
Nulme,
Goost,.ey-cuna-Bnrnshaw,
Twemlow, Blackden, Brereton, Brereton-
cum-Xinethwick, Middlewich,
Mooresbnl.row-cum-Par1,2e,
Rostlzerne,
Over Peover,
and
Xnelson,
or some of them, in the County
of
Chester
;
Checkley,
Audley,
Tdk,
Talk-on-the-Hill, Wolstanton, Briery-
k
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