Ely and Bury St. Edmunds (Light) Railway Act 1875
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1875 c. cxcvi |
| Year | 1875 |
[38 & 39 VICT.] The My and Bury Saint
JEdmunds
[Ch. CXCVi.]
(Light) Railway Act, 1875.
CHAPTER cxcvi.
An Act for making a Railway from Ely in the county of
A.D.
1875.
Cambridge to Bury Saint Edmunds in the county of
Suffolk ; and for other purposes. [11th August 1875.]
W
HEREAS the making of the railway herein-after described
would be attended with public and local advantage :
And whereas the persons in this Act named, with others, are
willing at their own expense to construct the railway, and it is
expedient that powers should bo conferred on them for that
purpose :
And whereas plans'and sections showing the lines and levels of
the railway 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 of the railway, were duly deposited
with the clerks of the peace for the counties of Cambridge and
Suffolk, and are herein-after respectively referred to as the deposited
plans,
sections, and books of reference :
And whereas it is intended that the railway should be con-
structed and worked as a light railway, subject to the provisions
respecting light railways contained in " The Regulation of Rail-
ways Act, 1868: "
And whereas it is expedient that the Company, and all companies
and persons lawfully working or using then* railway, should be
authorised to use the portion of the Bury Saint Edmunds and
Thetford Railway herein-after described, and that the Company and
the Bury Saint Edmunds and Thetford Railway Company should
be empowered to make and carry into effect the agreements herein-
after provided for:
And whereas by a bill now pending in Parliament (herein-after
referred to as " the Newmarket Bill ") it is proposed to incorporate
a company (herein-after called "the Newmarket Company") for
making and maintaining the following railways (being railways
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[Ch.
CXCVi.] The Ely and Bury Saint Edmunds [38 & 39 VICT. ]
{Light) Kaihoay Act, 1875.
A.D,
1875.
capable of being worked by heavy engines and rolling stock); that is
to say,
(1.) A railway (herein-after referred to as "the Newmarket
Company's Railway No. 1") commencing by a junction
with the Great Eastern Railway near the southern end of
the passenger platform at the Ely Station thereon, and
terminating by a junction with the Newmarket and Bury
branch of the same railway; and
(2.) A railway for forming a second junction between the New-
market Company's Railway No. 1 and the said Newmarket
and Bury branch of the Great Eastern Railway:
And whereas it is provided (amongst other things) by the New-
market Bill that a junction shall be made between the Newmarket
Company's Railway No. 1 and the Great Eastern Railway, at such
a point as the Great Eastern Company shall reasonably require,
and that if the last-mentioned Company and the Newmarket Com-
pany arrange for the accommodation of the traffic of the Newmarket
Company at the Ely Station of the Great Eastern Company as now
existing, or as the same may be hereafter extended or enlarged,
the Newmarket Company should not purchase or take, without
the consent of the Great Eastern Company, any lands belonging
to that Company, or which they may in the present session be
authorised to acquire ; but that if such arrangement be not made
the Newmarket Company shall be at liberty to extend their railway
within the limits of deviation shown upon their deposited plans
to,
and to construct a station upon, the south side of a certain
road leading from Ely to Soham, subject to certain provisions
contained in the said clauses (which provisional extension of the
Newmarket Company's Railway and construction of a station
by that Company are herein-after referred to as the IJewmarket
Company's " Ely Extension " and " Ely Station " respectively):
And whereas for a considerable distance the railway by this Act
authorised and the Newmarket Company's Railway No. 1 are
almost identical in their course, and it is expedient that the powers
of the Company to construct that part of their railway by this Act
authorised which lies between Soham and Ely be suspended as by
this Act provided, and such other provision made as is herein-after
contained, with a view to the construction by the Newmarket
Company of the corresponding part of their proposed railway, with
running powers over the same to the Company :
And whereas the purposes 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
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