Wirral Railway Transfer Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. cxxxiii |
| Year | 1889 |
[52 & 53 VICT.] Wirral Railway Transfer [Oh. cxxxiii.]
Act, 1889. '
CHAPTER cxxxiii.
An Act to authorise the transfer of certain portions of the A..D.1889.
Undertaking of the Wirral Railway Company to the
Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire and the Wrexham
Mold and Connah's Quay Railway Companies and for
other purposes. [12th August 1889.]
W
HEREAS by the Wirral Railway Certificate 1883 (herein-after
called " the Certificate of 1883 ") granted by the Board of
Trade under the powers conferred upon them by the Railways
Construction facilities Act 1864 and the Railways (Powers and
Construction) Act 1864 Amendment Act 1870 the Wirral Railway
Company (in this Act called "the Wirral Company ") were incor-
porated with a capital of three hundred thousand pounds in shares
and power to borrow one hundred thousand" pounds on mortgage
and authorised to make certain railways in the hundred of Wirral
in the county of Chester described in the said Certificate and therein
numbered respectively 1, 2, 3 and 4:
And whereas by the Wirral Railway Act 1884 (in this Act
called " the Act of 1884 ") the Wirral Company were authorised
to make a branch railway to Birkenhead and for that purpose to
raise one hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds by ordinary or
preference shares and to borrow fifty-five thousand pounds on
mortgage:
And whereas by the Wirral Railway Act 1885 (in this Act called
" the Act of 1885 ") the Wirral Company were authorised to
extend their railway to the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway at the River Dee by means of six several lines of railway
described in the said Act and therein numbered respectively 1, 2, S,
4i,
5, and 6, and for that purpose to raise three hundred and sixty
thousand pounds not exceeding one-half of which might be pre-
ference and the balance ordinary shares and to borrow one hundred
and twenty thousand pounds on mortgage :
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[Oh. CXXXiii.] Wirral Railway trmsfer [52 & 53 VICT.]
Act, 1889.
And whereas by the Wirral Railway Act 1888 (in this Act called
" the Act of 1888") the "Wirral Company were authorised to
construct a short loop line of railway between the Railway No. 2
authorised by the Act of 1885 and the Railway No. 3 authorised
by the Certificate of 1883 and they were by the same Act (sec-
tion 15) authorised to abandon the construction of (1) Railways
No.
1 and No. 2 described in and authorised by the Certificate of
1883 (2) so much of Railway No. 3 described in and authorised by
the same Certificate as was intended to be situate between the
termination of Railway No. 2 to be abandoned as aforesaid and
a point in the field numbered 40 on the twenty-five inch Ordnance
map in the township of Noctorum and parish of Woodchurch
distant three hundred and twenty yards or thereabouts measured
in a southerly direction from the northern corner of the said
field and (3) Railway No. 6 described in and authorised by the Act
of 1885:
And whereas by the Act of 1888 (section 21) the capital to be
raised by shares and borrowing respectively under the Certificate
of 1883 was reduced and limited to the sum. of two hundred
thousand pounds and sixty-six thousand six hundred pounds
respectively:
And whereas the Wirral Company have made and constructed a
portion of the railway authorised by the Act of 1884 and the same
has been opened for traffic and they have also acquired lands for
other portions of the railways authorised to be constructed by them
but have not constructed any of such other portions of the said
railways :
And whereas by the Act of 1888 the time for the compulsory
purchase of lands for the purposes of the railways by the Act of
1885 authorised other than Railway No. 6 by the Act of 1888
directed to be abandoned was limited to two years from, the thirty-
first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight and
the Company were by the same Act authorised to enter upon take
and use such of the lands delineated on the deposited plans referred
to in the Certificate of 1883 as might be required for the purposes
of Railways Nos. 3 and 4 by that Certificate authorised other than
the portion of Railway No. 3 by the Act of 1888 directed to be
abandoned but such powers of compulsory purchase should not be
exercised after the expiration of two years from the nineteenth day
of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight:
And whereas by the Act of 1888 the time for the completion
and opening of the railways authorised by the Certificate of 1883
other than the railways and portion of railway directed to be
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