IN PARLIAMENT, SESSION 1865
HAVANT, HAMBLEDON, AND DROXFORD RAILWAY.
(Incorporation of Company; Power to make Railways; and other arrangements; Amendment of Acts).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave to bring in a bill to incorporate a company (hereinafter called the Company), for making and maintaining the railways hereinafter described, or one of them, together with all necessary stations, approaches, communications, junctions, and other works and conveniences (that is to say) a railway (hereinafter referred to as railway No. 1) commencing by a junction with the Portsmouth and Chichester Line of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, in the parish of Havant, in the county of Southampton, at a point about 120 yards, or thereabouts, westward of the point where that Line crosses on a level the turnpike road leading from West Leigh to Havant, and terminating in the parish of Hambledon, in the same county, in a field numbered 666 on the Tithe Commutation Map of that parish, which said field abuts on the western side of the farm-house and buildings known as Berry Lodge Farm, the property of Col. Thos. Butler, and occupied by Robert Hills, which railway will pass from, through, or into the following parishes, and extra-parochial places, or some of them, namely—Havant, Bedhampton, Farlington, Waterloo, Waterloo Ville, Portsea, Southwick, Catherington, and Hambledon, all in the county of Southampton.
2. A Railway (hereinafter referred to as Railway No. 2) commencing by a junction with railway No. 1, at the termination thereof, and terminating by a junction with the authorised Line of the Petersfield and Bishop’s Waltham Railway, at a point near to where the said authorised railway is proposed to be carried across the Turnpike Road leading from Warnford to Droxford, which road is numbered 5 in the parish of Droxford, on the Parliamentary Plans deposited for the Petersfield and Bishop’s Waltham Railway Act, 1864, which railway will pass from, through, or into the parishes, townships, or extra-parochial places, or some of them, namely— Hambledon, Soberton, Meonstoke, and Droxford, all in the county of Southampton.
And it is intended by the Bill to confer upon the Company the following or some of the following among other powers :
To make lateral deviations from the lines of the said intended railways and works to the extent and within the limits described upon the plans hereinafter mentioned.
To make such openings in, and alterations of all or any the railways of the London, Brighton, and South Coast, London and South-Western, Mid-Hants and Petersfield, and Bishop’s Waltham Railway Companies, hereinafter styled the four Companies, as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the intended Act, and to cross, stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all such streets, roads, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, towing paths, streams, drains, pipes, rivers, navigations, and other works, as it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert in the construction of the said Railways and works.
To purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, lands, houses, and hereditaments for the purposes of the said intended Railways and works, and to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges connected with such lands, houses, and hereditaments, or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the purposes of the Bill; and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and privileges.
To levy tolls, rates and charges for or in respect of the the use of the said intended railways and works; and, as regards the railways of the ‟Four Companies;” and to alter, vary, or extinguish existing tolls, rates, and charges; and to confer, vary, or extinguish any exemptions from tolls, rates, charges.
To enable the Company on the one hand, and the four Companies, or any of those Companies, on the other hand, from time to time, to enter into and to carry into effect, arrangements and agreements for or with respect to the conduct, interchange, accommodation, and conveyance of traffic, coming from or destined for, the respective undertakings of the contracting Companies, and the division and appropriation of the revenue arising from that traffic, and to authorise the appointment of Joint Committees for carrying into effect any such agreement as aforesaid, and, if need be, to alter the tolls and charges which the said four Companies may, respectively, receive and take upon their respective undertakings, and to confer exemptions from such tolls and charges.
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