Midland Railway Act 1898

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1898 c. l
[61 & 62
VICT.]
Midland Railway Act, 1898. [Ch. 1.]
CHAPTER 1.
An Act to confer additional powers upon the Midland
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1898.
Railway Company for the construction of works and
the acquisition of lands to confer powers upon that
Company and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company and upon the Midland and Great Northern
Railways Joint Committee for the acquisition of lands
and for other purposes. [1st July 1898.]
HBE.EAS it is expedient that the Midland Railway Company
(in this Act called " the Company ") should be empowered to
construct the widenings of railways and other works and to exercise
the other powers in this Act mentioned and also to acquire retain
hold and use additional lands for tho purposes of this Act and for
extending their station siding warehouse coal wharf depot mineral
goods and other accommodation and for other purposes connected
with their undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company and the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company (in this Act called " the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Company") should be empowered to acquire the
lands in this Act mentioned in that
behalf:
And whereas it is expedient that the Midland and Great Northern
Railways Joint Committee (in this Act called " the Committee")
should be empowered to acquire the lands in this Act mentioned in
that
behalf:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of
the widenings of railways and other works by this Act authorised
and planB showing the lands required or which may be taken for
the purposes or under the powers of this Act and also books of
reference to those plans containing tho names of the owners and
lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the
said lands were duly deposited with the clerks of the peace for the
several counties within which the said widenings of railways and
other works will be made or are situate and the said lands are
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1898. situate and those plana sections and books of reference are in this
Act referred to as the deposited plans sections and books of reference
respectively:
And whereas it is expedient that the powers for the compulsory
purchase of lands for the purposes of the Dore and Sheffield widen-
ing authorised by the Midland Railway Act 1892 should be revived
and extended and that the time now limited by the Midland Railway
Act 1896 for the compulsory purchase of lands for the purposes
of the Oodnor and Ooates Park widening and the Ilkeston and
Langley Mill widening authorised by the Midland Railway Act
1891 and of the Gloucester New Dock Branch authorised by the
Midland Railway Act 1893 should be extended as provided by this
Act:
And whereas it is expedient that further powers should be
conferred upon the Company with respect to the sale or other
disposal of lands acquired by them which are not or eventually may
not be required for the purposes of their undertaking :
And whereas it is expedient that some of the powers and provisions
of existing Acts relating to the Company should be amended as
provided by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to raise additional capital for the purposes of the
widenings of railways and other works by this Act authorised and
for other purposes of this Act and also for the making and enlarge-
ment of stations sidings warehouses engine-sheds workshops coal
wharves depots mineral goods and other works and conveniences
for the accommodation of the traffic on their railways and for
completing the purchase of lands and buildings for any of the
above-mentioned purposes and for providing additional plant and
rolling-stock block and interlocking signals and for the general
purposes of their undertaking:
And whereas it is expedient that the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Company and the Great Northern Railway Company respectively
should be empowered to apply their funds to the purposes of this
Act in which they are respectively interested:
And whereas the objects of this Act 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 Temporal and
Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same as follows:
Short title. 1- This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Midland
Railway Act 1898.
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[61 & 62
VICT.]
Midland Railway Act, 1898. [Ch. 1.]
2.
The following Acts and parts of Acts are except where AD. 1898.
expressly varied by this Act incorporated with and form part of xncorpora.
this Act (that is to say) : tion of
The Lands Clauses Acts: Acts.
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 :
Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) and Part IT.
(relating to extension of time) of the Railways Clauses Act
1863:
The provisions of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act 1845
with respect to the following matters namely :
The transfer or transmission of shares;
The borrowing of money by the Company on mortgage or
bond ;
The conversion of borrowed money into capital:
And Part II. (relating to additional capital) and Part III.
(relating to debenture stock) of the Companies Clauses Act
1863 as amended by subsequent Acts.
3.
In this Act the several words and expressions to which Interpreia-
meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated tl0n-
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there be some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to such construction:
The expression " the widenings" means the widenings of
railways by this Act authorised.
4.
Subject to tho provisions of this Act the Company may make Power to
and maintain in the lines and according to the levels shown on the ComPany t0
deposited plans and sections thereof respectively the widenings of wayg &c.
railways hereinafter described with all proper stations sidings
approaches works and conveniences connected therewith and may
enter upon take and use such of the lands delineated on those
plans and described in the deposited books of reference
relating thereto respectively as may be required for those purposes :
The widenings and works herein-before referred to and authorised
by this Act to be made by the Company are
A widening two miles four furlongs and one chain in length of
the Company's, railway from Leeds to Skipton (to be called the
Bingley and Thwaites widening) situate wholly in the west
riding of the county of York commencing in the parish and
urban district of Bingley at a point on that railway thirty-seven
and a half chains or thereabouts measured in a south-easterly
direction from the bridge carrying the road from Bingley to
Keighley over that railway at Cross Plats and terminating in
the parish and borough of Keighley at a point on that railway
fifteen and a half chains or thereabouts measured in a westerly
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