Taff Vale Railway Act 1857
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1857 c. cliii |
| Year | 1857 |
ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE KEGDME.
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Cap.
cliii.
An Act for enabling the Taff Vale Railway Com-
pany to construct new Lines of Railway, to
alter, widen, and improve Portions of their
existing Railway; and for other Purposes.
[17th August 1857.]
T"HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament
held in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His
Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for 6
& 7
W.
4.
making a Railway from Merthyr Tydfil to
Cardiff,
to be called the c-lxxxii-
"Taff
Vale
Railway" with Branches, whereby the Taff
Vale
Railway.
Company (in this Act called " the Company") was incorporated, with
Power to make the Railway and Branches therein mentioned: And
whereas further Powers have been conferred upon the said Company
by various Acts of Parliament which have been subsequently passed:
And whereas under the Provisions of " The Aberdare Railway Act, 8
&
9 Vict.
1845,"
and of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the c- clix-
Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty,
intituled An Act to authorize the leasing of the Aberdare Railway, n&l2Vict.
with the Branch Railway and Works connected therewith, to the c- xxiii-
Taff Vale Railway Company, the Aberdare Railway has been leased to
[Local.] 28 M the
2530 20° & 21° VICTORIA, Cap.cliii.
The Taff Vale Railway Act, 1857.
the Company for a Term of Nine hundred and ninety-nine Years, and
the same is now held and worked by them as Part of their Under-
taking
:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to make the new Railways in this Act mentioned: And
whereas it is also expedient that the Company should be empowered
to acquire additional Lands for altering, widening, and improving, and
to alter, widen, and improve, so much of the Main Line of their Rail-
way as lies between the Terminus thereof in Bute Road at Cardiff and
the Terminus thereof at Merthyr Tydfil, and also certain Portions of
the East Branch at
Cardiff,
and of the Rhondda Branch of the Taff
Vale Railway: And whereas it is also expedient that the Company
should be empowered to raise additional Capital for carrying the
Purposes aforesaid, or some of them, into effect, and also (by reason
of the increased and increasing Traffic on their Railway) for laying
down additional Rails upon and otherwise improving other Portions of
their Undertaking, and the Stations, Works, and Conveniences con-
nected with their Undertaking, and for providing additional Plant and
Rolling Stock, and for the general Purposes of the Company: And
whereas the several Objects aforesaid cannot be effected without the
Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that
it maybe enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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:
Short Title. I. This Act may be cited for any Purpose as
Railway Act, 1857." The Taff Vale
8&9Vict,
cc.
18. & 20.
incorpo-
rated.
II.
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and " The
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," shall be incorporated
with and form Part of this Act.
Works to be
constructed
according to
deposited
Plans.
III.
And whereas Plans showing the Lines of the proposed new
Railways respectively, and. the Lands required for the same, and the
Lands required for the proposed widening and altering of Portions of
the existing Railways, and Sections showing the Levels of the new
Railways and of the Portions of the existing Railways as proposed to
be widened and altered, and also a Book of Reference to such Plans
containing the Names of the Owners and Lessees, or reputed Owners
and Lessees, and of the Occupiers of the said Lands, have been
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Glamorgan
.•
Therefore, subject to the Provisions in this Act contained, the Company
may make the new Railways herein-after mentioned, with all proper
Stations, Approaches, Works, and Conveniences connected therewith,
in the respective Lines or Courses and according to the respective
Levels shown upon the said Plans and Sections, and upon the Lands
delineated
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