Great Northern Railway Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. xciii |
[50 & 51 VICT.] GreatNorthern Railway Act, 188?. [Oh. ZCiii.]
CHAPTER xciii.
An Act to confer further powers upon the Great Northern
A.D.
1887.
Railway Company with respect to their own undertaking
and undertakings in which they are jointly interested and
upon the Halifax High Level and North and South
Junction Railway Company with respect to their under-
taking and for other purposes. [5th July 1887.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the Great Northern Railway
Company (who are meant when the term " the Company " is
hereinafter used) should be authorised :
To make and maintain the railways and works hereinafter General pur-
described ;
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To widen and improve certain portions of their railways;
To abolish certain level crossings of their railways and otherwise
to deal with certain roads and footpaths connected with their
undertaking;
To purchase and acquire additional lands for the purposes of
their undertaking;
To raise capital for the purposes of this Act and also to raise Additional
additional capital for the improvement and enlargement of their
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railways stations and works and the construction of new stations
and sidings and for the providing of additional rolling stock and
other the general purposes of their undertaking ;
To consolidate the various preference or guaranteed stocks of the
Company into a smaller number of stocks:
And whereas it is also expedient that the powers hereinafter
contained for the acquisition of certain lands should be conferred
upon the Company jointly with the Midland Railway Company :
Ani whereas it is also expedient that the time prescribed for Superfluous
the sale of lands acquired by the Company and by the Company lands-
jointly with other companies under the powers of various Acts and
not yet applied to the purposes of the undertakings in respect of
which they were so acquired should be extended :
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Louth7nd ^n^ whereas by the Louth and East Coast Railway Agt 1872
East Coast a company was incorporated (hereinafter referred to as " the Louth
Eailway Company") for making a railway from the east coast of Lincoln-
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shire to join the Great Northern Railway at Louth:
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And whereas by the Louth and East Goast Railway Act 1877
the Louth Company were empowered tp make a deviation of a
portion of their said authorised railway ;
And whereas the Louth Comply have completed their railway
and, the same is worked by the Great Northern Railway Company
by virtue of an agreement dated
1>lie,
14th day of March 1872 (which
agreement is scheduled to and confirmed by the Louth and East
Coast Railway Act 1872) as modified by a further agreement
dated the 20th day of November 1874 aud sc^e4v*ted to a&d con-
firmed by the Louth and East (Joast Railway Act, ]j877 :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company and Ijhe Louth
Company should be empowered to enter intp $p$ tp fulfil further
agreements with respect to the undertaking of ijhe Lputh Cpmpany ;
44 & 45
Vict.
And whereas by the Boston Dock Act 1881 the mayor aldermen
and burgesses of the borough of Boston (hereinafter called " the
Boston Corporation") were authorised .(section 5) to construct
docks at Boston and a short ra^way to connect the same with the
railway of the Compa-ny and (section 6) to construct warehouses
and other like works in connexion with their said docks and
(sections 60 and 67) to borrow n^oney for the purposes of the said
docks and works on the security of their harbour revenue and of
the borough fund and borough rate of the said borough ^nd the
Company and the Boston Corporation were authorised (section 59)
to enter into agreements with respect to the use and working of all
or any parts of the dock railway and works by that Act authorised
and the Boston Corporation were authorised (section 2,4) to grant
leases of the said warehouses and other conveniences connected
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therewith:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should subject to
the provisions hereinafter contained be authorised and empowered to
advance by loan or otherwise to the Boston Corporation for the
purposes and upon the security hereinafter specified the sum of
twelve thousand five hundred pounds or such smaller amount as
may be agreed upon between the Boston Corporation and ths
Company:
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Vict.
And whereas by the Halifax High Level and North and South
c. ccxlii. Junction Railway Act 1884 (hereinafter referred to as "the Halifax
Act of 1884 ") a company (hereinafter referred to as " the Halifax
Company") was incorporated and authorised to construct certain
Halifax in the West
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of York in that Act described as Railway No. 1 Railway No. 2 A.D. 1887.
Railway No. 3 Railway No. 4 and Railway No. 5 :
And whereas by an agreement bearing date the 20th day of August
1886 and made between the Halifax Company and the Great Northern
and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies and scheduled
to and confirmed by the Halifax High Level and North and South
Junction Railway Act 1886 (in this Act referred to as u the Halifax
Act of 1886 ") after reciting among other things that it was not
intended at present to proceed with the construction of the said
Railways No. 1 or No. 3 the Great Northern and Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Companies agreed to work the said Railways
No.
2 No. 4 and No. 5 of the Halifax Company when constructed
on the terms in that agreement contained:
And whereas it is expedient that the Halifax Company should be
empowered to make the deviation in this Act described of their
said Railway No. 4 and to abandon the construction of their said
Railways No. 1 and No. 3 and a portion of their said Railway No. 4 :
And whereas by section 42 of the Halifax Act of 1884 it was
provided that the sum of fourteen thousand eight hundred and
fifty-one pounds nine shillings and eightpence (herein referred to
as " the deposit fund ") which had been deposited with the Chancery
Division of the High Court of Justice in England in respect of the
application to Parliament for that Act should not be paid or trans-
ferred to or on the application of the depositors thereof unless the
Halifax Company should previously to the expiration of the period
limited by that Act for the completion of the railways thereby
authorised open the same for the public conveyance of passengers
subject to a proviso for the re-payment or re-transfer from time to
time to the depositors of portions of the said sum in proportion to
the length of the said railways from time to time opened for public
conveyance of passengers:
And whereas by section 43 of the last-mentioned Act it was
provided that if the Halifax Company did not previously to the
expiration of the period so limited as aforesaid open the railways
by that Act authorised the deposit fund or so much thereof as
should not have been repaid to the depositors should in the first
instance be applicable towards compensating landowners and other
persons whose property had been interfered with or injuriously
affected and that any surplus remaining over after the satisfaction
of the claims of such landowners or other persons should either be
forfeited to Her Majesty or applied (if the Halifax Company were
insolvent) for the benefit of the creditors of that company :
And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for
the repayment as hereinafter provided of the sum of six thousand
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