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RefNoKCB/2/CL/10/5
AltRefNoCB/2/CL/10/5
TitleThe Eastern Counties Railway Act, 1845 and an Act to Amend the Cambridge Improvement Acts, and to exempt the Eastern Counties Railway Company from certain tolls thereby imposed
DescriptionThe Eastern Counties Railway Act, 1845 concerned the extension of a railway from Cambridge to Huntingdon. This series consists of material relating to the passage of this act through parliament and the act to amend the Cambridge Improvement Acts, which included an exemption for the Eastern Counties Railways from certain tolls. As the introduction of the railway resulted in reductions to the revenue generated by the Corporation from road tolls the 1846 act had a compensation clause added to cover a portion of these losses and help the Corporation repay the loans they had secured against revenue generated from the tolls. This series consists of compulsory purchase orders for land required by the Eastern Counties Railways for the extension of the railway; correspondence between the Town Clerk, the railway company, solictors and parliamentary agents acting for both parties regarding particulars of the scheme, the purchase of land and the passage of the act through parliament; the appointment of Richard Harwood as surveyor to value land; sample papers from a Court of Pleas case brought by Wm Herring Smith, as the lessee of tolls, against the Eastern Counties Railway for loss of income resulting from the railway extension; a report and correspondence relating to the proposed Royston and Hitchen Railway extension and complaints against these propositions from the River Colleges; and an 1854 writ overturning the 1846 Court of Pleas case in favour of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. This series also contains some correspondence, reports and copies of later railway acts from 1863 to 1889 including a copy of the Great Northern Railway Bill, 1881.
Date1844-1889
CreatorNameMunicipal Corporation of Cambridge
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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