Cardiff Railway Act 1897
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1897 c. ccvii |
[60 & 61 VICT.] Cardiff Railway Act, 1897. [Oh. CCVii.]
CHAPTER ccvii.
An Act for empowering the Bute Docks Company to
A,D.
1897.
construct certain Railways for conferring upon that
Company certain running powers for empowering them
to construct a Low Water Pier for changing the name
of the Company and for authorising the Company to
raise Additional Capital and for other purposes..
[6th August 1897.]
HEKEAS under the Eute Docks (Transfer) Act 1886 the
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Bute Docks Company (in this Act called " the Company ")
c.
lxxxvi.
were incorporated and became the owners of the Bute Docks at
Cardiff:
And whereas improved railway access from the docks of the
Company to the Taff and Bhondda Valleys and other portions of
the Glamorganshire coalfield is an object of local and public
importance:
And whereas in furtherance of that object it is expedient to
authorise the Company to construct the railways in this Act
described:
And whereas in connexion with the construction of such railways
it is expedient to confer on the Company certain running powers:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Company to construct
the low water pier described in this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the name of the Company be
changed:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Company to raise
further capital and to make such other provisions as this Act
contains:
And whereas John Patrick Crichton Stuart the present Marquess
of Bute has surrendered into the hands of the Company five
thousand ordinary shares standing in his name being part of the
fully paid ordinary shares allotted to him under the provisions
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of the Bute Docks (Transfer) Act 1886 and for the purpose of
' — ' removing doubts as to the effect of such surrender it is expedient
that such shares should be cancelled :
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels
of the railways and works proposed to be authorised by this Act
and also books of reference containing the names of the owners
and lessees or reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of
the lands required or which may be taken for the purposes or
under the powers of this Act were duly deposited with the clerk
of the peace for the county of Glamorgan and are herein-after
jmi .fi * 'respectively referred to as the deposited plans sections and books 'of
Cireferenee':
r;-M^y itI--therefore please Tour Majesty that it may be enacted
^and-beit enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
andJ Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the
authority of
the'
same as follows (that is to say):—
I.—PEELEHINAHY.
^nVhSter ;, 1. This Act may be cited as the Cardiff Railway Act 1897 aid
'the Bute Docks Acts 1865 to 1895 may be cited together with this
Act as the Bute Docks and Cardiff Railway Acts 1865 to 1897.
Incorpora. 2. The Lands Clauses Acts and the Railways Clauses Consoli-
generalActs. Nation Act 184.5 and Part I. (Construction of a Railway), of the
Railways Clauses Act 1863 and the Harbours Docks and Piers
Clauses Act 1847 (so far as they are applicable for the purposes of
and ate not varied by or inconsistent with this Act) are hereby
incorporated with this Act Provided always that the provisions of
the Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 " with respect to
lifeboats " and " with respect to keeping a tide and weather gauge "
shall only come into operation as parts of this Act if and when and
so far as the Board of Trade from time to time so require.
Interpreta- 3. In this Act the several words and expressions to which
tion. meanings are assigned by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated
herewith have the same respective meanings unless there is some-
thing in the subject or context repugnant to or inconsistent with
such construction and the expression " superior courts" or " court
of competent jurisdiction" or any other like expression in this
Act or any Act wholly or partially incorporated herewith shall be
read:
and have effect as if the debt or demand with respect to which
the expression is used were a simple contract debt and not a debt
or demand created by statute.
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Cardiff Railway Act, 1897. [Oh* GCVti:]
II.—"RAILWAYS.
-^D. 1897.
(i.) Power to construct Baihmys.
4.
Subject to the provisions of this Act the Company may make Power to
and maintain in the lines and according to the levels shown oh the make raiJ"
deposited plans..and sections tlie railways and workshereinafter road.an
described with all proper stations sidings approaches wdrk-s and
conveniences connected therewith and the road herein-after described
and may enter on take and use such of the lands delineated on the
said plans and described in the deposited books of reference as may
be required for those purposes :-—
(A)
A Railway No. 1 (herein-after called "Railway No. 1")
8 miles 2 furlongs in length commencing in the parish of
Llanishen by a junction with the Rhymney Railway at or near
the bridge carrying the public road leading to the Jews'
Cemetery over that railway and terminating in the parish of
Pontypridd (formerly part of the parish of Eglwysilan) in the
field or enclosure numbered 1615 upon the -25V0 Ordnance
survey map (1873 and 1874) of the "parish of Eglwysilan :
(B)
A .Railway No. 2 (herein-after called " Eailway No. 2")
1 mile 7 furlongs 1
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8 chains in length wholly in the parish of
Pontypridd (formerly part of the parish of Eglwysilan) com-
mencing by a junction with Railway No. 1 at its termination
and terminating in a piece of land belonging or reputed
to belong to the Marquess of Bute formerly part of Ooed-
penmain common near the north-east corner of a block of
huildings known as " Davies' Terrace " :
(0) A Railway No. 3 (herein-after called "Railway No. 3''}
2 furlongs 0'4< chains in length wholly in the parish of
Pontypridd (formerly part of the parish of Eglwysilan) com-
mencing by a junction with Railway No. 2 at its termination
and. terminating on the eastern side of the public road leading
from Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil at or near the main entrance
door of thepuhlie-hoaserknown as the "Lamb and Flag " :
(D)
A Railway No. 4 (distinguished on the deposited plans and
sections as ^and in this Act called " Railway No. 6 ") 1 jnile
1 furlong 2 chains in length commencing in the parish of
Pontypridd (formerly part of the parish of Eglwysilan) by a
junction with Railway No. 1 at its termination and terminating
in the parish- of Pontypridd (formerly part of the parish of
Llantwit-Eardre) by a junction with the main line of the Taff
Vale Railway:
(E)
A Railway No. 5 (distinguished on the deposited plans and
sections as and in this Act called "Railway No. 7") 3
furlongs 9:1& ehainsiin length commencing da the parish of
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