Midland Railway Act 1899
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1899 c. cvii |
| Year | 1899 |
£62 & 63 VICT.] Midland Railway Act, 1899. [Oh. CViL]
CHAPTER cvii.
An Act to confer additional powers upon the Midland A-p-1899,
Railway Company and upon that Company and the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company and upon
the Midland and North Eastern Railway Companies
Committee and upon the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint
Railways Committee and upon the Midland and Great
Northern Railways Joint Committee for the construction
of works . and the acquisition of lands to authorise
agreements between the Midland Lancashire and
Yorkshire and Great Northern Railway Companies to
confirm an agreement between the Midland and Midland
and South Western Junction Railway Companies to
provide for the vesting of the undertaking of the
Barnoldswick Railway Company in the Midland Railway
Company and for other purposes. [13th July 1899.]
W
HEREAS it is expedient that the Midland Railway Company
(in this Act called " the Company ") should be empowered to
construct the railways 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 the 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 execute the
works and exercise the powers and to acquire the lands in this
Act mentioned in that behalf :
And whereas it is expedient that the Midland and North Eastern
Railway Companies Committee (in this Act called " the Midland
and North Eastern Committee ") should be empowered to make the
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1899. new footpath and exercise the other powers in thia Act mentioned
in that behalf :
And whereas it is expedient that the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint
Railways Committee (in this Act called *' the Norfolk and Suffolk
Committee") should be empowered to make and maintain the
deviation of their authorised Cromer and Mundesley Railway and 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 Midland and
Great Northern 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 railways and other works by this Act authorised and plans
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 the 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 railways and other works will be made or are
situate and the said lands are situate and those plans sections and
books of reference are in this Act referred to as the deposited plans
sections and books of reference respectively :
And whereas the powers for the construction of the railways
known as the Cromer and Mundesley Railways authorised by-
section 21 of the Midland Railway Act 1896 are now vested as to
part thereof in the Midland and Great Northern Committee and as
to the remainder thereof in the Norfolk and Suffolk Committee and
it is expedient that the time now limited by the Midland Railway
Act 1896 for the compulsory purchase of lands for and for the
construction of the said railways 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 the Company and the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Company and the Great Northern Railway Company
(in this Act called "the Great Northern Company") should be
empowered to enter into and carry into effect agreements with
respect to the use of the joint station at Halifax of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire and Great Northern Companies :
And whereas it is expedient that the agreement between the
Company and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway
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Company (in this Act called " the Junction Company ") as Bet forth A.D. 1899.
in the Second Schedule to this Act should be confirmed :
And -whereas the undertaking of the Barnoldswick Railway
Company (in this Act called "the Barnoldswick Company") is
worked by the Company and it has been agreed, between the said
Companies and is expedient that the same should be vested in the
Company as provided by this Act:
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
railways and other works by this Act authorised and for other
purposes of this Act and also for the making and enlargement of
stations sidings warehouses engine-sheds workshops coal wharves
dep6ts 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 the North Eastern Railway Company the Great Eastern
Railway Company and the Great Northern Company and the several
Committees herein-before mentioned respectively should be em-
powered 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 Qneen'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 :—
1.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Midland Short title.
Railway Act 1899.
' 2. The following Acts and parts of Acts are except where Incorpora-
expressly varied by this Act incorporated with and form part of tl0U of. . ,
x-u- A //4-u ± • i. \ general Acts
this Act (that is to say) ;—
The Lands Glauses Acts :
The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 :
• Part I. (relating to the construction of a railway) Part II.
(relating to extension of time) Part III. (relating to working
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