Letter by the Chairman of the London and South-Western Railway Company: To the Shareholders ...

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W. Clowes, 1846 - 76 pages
 

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Page 26 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th ult.
Page 36 - ... promoters of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company an assurance that the extension of the Line to Weymouth shall not be set up hereafter to defeat a direct Line from London to Falmouth, as expressed below through Mr. Austin, counsel for the Bill. " The promoters of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company are willing to assure the Committee that the extension of the Line to Weymouth shall not be set up hereafter to defeat a direct Line from London to Falmouth.
Page 17 - Report, unless under such a completely altered state of circumstances as would induce the Board of Trade to consider the principles which have guided them in that Report as no longer applicable.
Page 17 - MINUTE of ARRANGEMENT entered into by the Great Western Railway Company, the London and South-Western Railway Company, and the Provisional Committee of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company, 16th January, 1845.
Page 2 - Company pledging themselves not to encourage or promote, directly or indirectly, any future line of railway in opposition to, or tending to divert legitimate traffic from the lines of railway communication for the district as settled by the Report...
Page 18 - ... opinion of the Board of Trade shall be ascertained to be unfavourable to such line, it shall at once be abandoned. In the above agreement reference has been had more especially to extension lines from Salisbury or Dorchester, competing with the Great Western (including its branches) and the lines now sanctioned, on the one hand, and to extension lines from Basingstoke, competing against the South Western Railway (including its branches) and the Coast Line to Dorchester, on the other.
Page 21 - ... at the end of the Minute. In the first place, it was stated that the South Western Company would act bona fide — an addition which only appears necessary on the supposition that there was strong doubt as to that company's intentions. Secondly, the South Western directors stated that they acted " rather in deference to the authority of the Board of Trade, than in conformity with their own judgment, being of opinion that the Board's Report . . . might have been more beneficial to the public and...
Page 27 - Lordships admit that the numerous schemes which have been advertised for supplying railway accommodation through the districts referred to in the agreement, alter the circumstances in which...
Page 26 - Company, to the shareholders in that company, on the pending differences between the London and South Western and the Great Western Railway Companies.
Page 26 - South- Western Railway Company are at liberty to act in such manner as shall seem best for the interests of this Company.

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