Southern Railway Act 1924
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1924 c. lxvi |
| Year | 1924 |
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At, 1924.
CHAPrER lxvi.
An Act to empower the Southen Railway
A.D.
1924.
Company to extend their dock unertaking at
Southampton and to construct vorks and
acquire lands to abindon certain easting and
authorised railways and works to transfer to
the said Company the undertakhg of the
Wimbledon and Suton Railway Conpany and
the undertaking of tie Ryde Pier Conpany and
for other purposes. [1st August 1924.]
W
HEREAS it is expedent that the Soutlern Railway
Company (in thi Act referred o as " the
Company") should be 3mpowered to enstruct the
reclamation walls jetties graving docks airways and
other works by this Act aithorised and to aquire certain
lands in this Act describd and that the acquisition of
other lands already acqured by the Conwany should
be sanctioned and confirned:
And whereas in consquence of the analgamation
of the undertakings of the South Easten Railway
Company and the Londor Chatham and Dozer Railway
Company which undertadngs now form Dart of the
undertaking of the Compiny the railway taffie in the
Isle of Thanet can be more conveniently and expeditiously
worked on a circular route:
And whereas in order o render such woring possible
the Company have appliec to the Minister «f Transport
[Price
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FOR THE
[Ch.
lxvi.]
Southern
Railway [14 & 15
GEO.
5.]
Act, 1924.
A.D.
1924; for an order under the Ministry of Transport Act 1919
— as amended by subsequent Acts authorising a new railway
at and near Ramsgate forming a connection between
railways which formerly belonged to the said companies
respectively:
And whereas the construction of such railway will
render unnecessary the Ramsgate Harbour and Margate
Sands stations of the Company and certain portions of
railway leading thereto and it is accordingly expedient
that the said stations and portions of railway should be
abandoned:
And whereas by the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway
Act 1910 the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company
(in this Act referred to as " the Wimbledon Company ")
were incorporated and authorised to construct and
work the railways therein mentioned and by the
Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Acts 1913 and 1923
and the Metropolitan District Railway Act 1915 further
powers were conferred upon the Wimbledon Company:
And whereas the authorised share capital of the
Wimbledon Company amounts to one million one hun-
dred and fifty thousand pounds whereof the Wimbledon
Company have issued five hundred and thirty-five shares
of ten pounds each and the authorised borrowing powers
of the Wimbledon Company amount to five hundred and
seventy-five thousand pounds none of which powers have
been exercised:
And whereas it is expedient that the undertaking
of the Wimbledon Company should be transferred to and
vested in the Company on the terms in this Act mentioned
and that the Wimbledon Company should be dissolved
as provided by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that certain new railways
should be constructed at Wimbledon and Sutton for the
purpose of enabling the railways authorised to be con-
structed by the Wimbledon Company to be worked as
part of the Southern Railway system and that certain
of those authorised railways which will thereby become
unnecessary should be abandoned as by this Act provided:
And whereas by the Ryde Pier Act 1812 the Ryde
Pier Company (in this Act referred to as "the pier
company") were incorporated and in pursuance of that
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Southern
Railway [Ch. lxvi.]
Act, 1924.
and subsequent Acts are the owners of a pier at Ryde A.D. 1924.
and a tramway situate thereon: —
And whereas the pier of the pier company is situate
immediately alongside the railway pier of the Company
and at the seaward end the said piers are united forming
one continuous landing place and the said piers could be
worked more conveniently and economically as one
undertaking:
And whereas the capital liabilities of the pier
company now consist of ninety-two thousand five hundred
and forty-two pounds ten shillings consolidated original
stock and sixteen thousand pounds mortgage debenture
bonds repayable on the thirty-first day of December
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine and it is
expedient that the undertaking of the pier company
should be transferred to and vested in the Company
on the terms in this Act mentioned and that the pier
company should be dissolved as provided by this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company and
the Great Western Railway Company should be em-
powered to enter into and carry into effect agreements
with reference to the joint working and management of
traffic arising in or destined for the Channel Islands :
And whereas great inconvenience to the public and
expense to the Company arise from the periodical closing
of private roads and footpaths of the Company in order
to prevent the presumption of a dedication thereof to
the public and it is expedient that the maintenance of a
notice in a conspicuous position in any such road or
footpath forming an access or approach to any station
or goods yard or any dock or harbour premises of the
Company should be sufficient to prevent such presumption:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company
should be empowered to establish a savings bank for the
deposit of money at interest by the officers and servants
of the Company and their dependants as provided by
this Act:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company
should be empowered to raise further capital and to
apply their funds to the purposes of this Act and to the
general purposes of their undertaking and that the
Great Western Railway Company should be empowered
to apply their funds to the purposes of this Act in which
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