Railway News 1845-1851

Numb. 20534

The London Gazette

Published by Authority

Saturday, November 15, 1845, pp. 4533, 4537 & 4738

Gloucester and Hereford Canal and Worcester Railway.
In connection with the Welch Midland.

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next Session for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills, for making and maintaining a railway or railways, with all proper and convenient stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, works, communications, roads, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith, to commence at or near the stations of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company, and the Great Western Railway Company, in the parish of Saint Catherine, partly in the city of Gloucester, and partly in the county of Gloucester, and to terminate at or near a timber-yard on the north side of, or at or near the basin of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal, in the several parishes of Saint Peter and All Saints, or one of them, in the city of Hereford; and which said railway or railways and works, will pass from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places following, or some of them (that is to say): ...... Munsley, Bosbury, Bosbury, Catley, Upleadon, Castle Frome ......

Also to make and maintain another line of railway and works from and out of the said hereinbefore described line of railway, to commence at or near Stores Brook, in the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Hereford, and to terminate at or near a field of, or in the occupation of William Laslett, on the west of, and near to the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, in the parish of Claines, in the city of Worcester; ......

Dated this 5th day of November, 1845. Baxter, Rose, and Norton, Solicitors, 3, Park Street, Westminster.

Welch Midland Railway Bill.

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next Session, for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills for making and maintaining a railway or railways from Worcester and Leominster to Carmarthen and Swansea, with all proper and convenient, stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, works, communications, roads, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith ...

into the several parishes, townships, townlands and extra parochial and other places following, or some of them (that is to say); ...... Munsley, Bosbury, Bosbury and Upleadon, Upleadon, Castle Froome ......

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an Act or Acts to authorize the construction and maintenance of the railways hereinafter mentioned ...... a railway commencing by a junction with the proposed Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, in or near the city of Worcester ...... terminating at or near certain lands called the Priory, lying at the foot of Aylstone Hill, in the parishes of Saint Peter, Saint Owen, Saint John otherwise Saint John the Baptist, and All Saints, or some or one of them, in the city of Hereford ...... also a railway diverging from the said firstly hereinbefore mentioned intended railway, in or near the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Hereford, and terminating by a junction with the said Monmouth and Hereford Railway, or at an independent station at or near the town of Ross, in the parish of Ross, in the said county of Hereford ...... which said firstly-mentioned intended railway and other works connected therewith, will pass, from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or otherplaces following, or some of them; ...... Colwall, Coddington, Bosbury, Catley, Upleadon, Ledbury ...... and that a copy of so much of the said maps or plans, sections and books of reference, as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the said intended railway or railways and works are intended to be made, will be deposited, on or before the thirty-first day of December next, with the Parish Clerks of those parishes respectively, at their respective residences.
W. O. and W. Hunt, 10 Whitehall, London.
F. T. Elgie Worcester.
F. L. Bodenham, } Hereford
Thos. Evans,       }
Whitcombe, Helps, and Wemyss, Gloucester.


Numb. 20665

The London Gazette

Published by Authority

Saturday, November 14, 1846, pp. 4282 & 4283

Midland Railway.

Worcester, Hereford, Malvern, and Cheltenham Lines, with Branch to Ledbury.—Proposed extension by the Midland Railway Company from Worcester to Hereford, with Branches to Ledbury, Malvern, Ashchurch, and Cheltenham, with power to purchase or make arrangements with the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal and Company, and Junctions with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.   ....

It is intended to apply for powers to enable the Midland Railway Company to make and maintain the following railways and branch railways, with all necessary stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, communications, and other works connected therewith and approaches thereto, that is to say, railway commencing near to certain bridge over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, called “Black Pole Bridge,” in the parish of Claines, in the county of Worcester, where it is also intended to form a junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and terminating in or near to certain field or piece of ground adjoining certain road or lane called Friar Street or Albert Street, in the parishes of Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist, or one of them, within the liberties of the city of Hereford.   ....

Also, to make and maintain railway or branch railway, with all necessary works connected therewith, diverging from the said first-mentioned intended line, in or near to certain field, forming part of the Grange farm, belonging to Thomas Heywood, Esquire, in the occupation of John Acton, near to Southfield, in the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Hereford, and terminating at or near to the canal wharf, on the Ledbury and Ross turnpike-road, near to the turnpike-gate called the New Street Turnpike, in the parish of Ledbury, in the county of Hereford, which said last mentioned railway and works will be made in or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial and other places following, that is to say, Coddington, Bosbury, Munsley, Stapeley, Ledbury, Ledbury Denizen, Borough of Ledbury, Ledbury Forren, Leddon otherwise Leadon and Haffield, Wellington, Parkhold, Wall Hills, Mitchell and Netherton, Eastnor, Upleadon, Catley, Upleadon and Catley, Colwall, Donnington, or some of them, in the county of Hereford; and also connecting branch, to unite the last mentioned intended railway with the said first mentioned intended railway, commencing near Prior’s Court, in the said parish of Ledbury, and terminating in the said parish of Bosbury, near Stapeley wharf, and passing through the said parishes of Ledbury and Bosbury.


Numb. 21268

The London Gazette

Published by Authority

Friday, November 28, 1851, pp. 3301 & 3302

Worcester and Hereford Railway.

(Incorporation of Company for Making a Railway from Worcester to Hereford, with Branches to the city of Worcester, to Malvern, and to Ledbury; Working Arrangements with the Midland, London and North-Western, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Companies, or any or either of them; Power to Use Portions of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to Purchase or Make Arrangements with the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Company.)

NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of making and maintaining the railways hereinafter mentioned, or some or one of them, with all proper works and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches thereto respectively; that is to say: railway, commencing at or near bridge over the road leading from Worcester to Crowle, at the south end of the Shrub’s Hill station of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, in the parish of Saint Martin, in the city of Worcester, and county of the same city, and also by means of junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway at or near to the same point or place, and terminating in or near two adjoining fields Or pieces of land or ground, or one of them, situate at or near Above Eign, in the parish of All Saints, within the liberties of the city of Hereford, and adjoining and on the south side of the turnpike-road leading from Hereford to Hay. ........

Also a railway, commencing by junction with the said first-mentioned intended railway, in or near a field, forming part of Upleadon Court Estate, belonging to and in the occupation of George Shayle, Esquire, adjoining to the road leading from Ashperton to the turnpike-road from Ledbury to Bromyard, and between the said first mentioned road and Upleadon Court House, in the division of Upland, otherwise Upleadon, in the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Hereford, and terminating at or near to the New Canal Wharf of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal at Ledbury, near to or adjoining New street, in Ledbury aforesaid, in the parish of Ledbury, in the said county of Hereford, which said last-mentioned railway is intended to pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places following, or some of them (that is to say); Bosbury, Upland, Upleadon, and Catley, Upland otherwise Upleadon, Catley, Munsley, Pixley, Parkhold, Coddington, Ledbury, Ledbury Denizen, borough of Ledbury, Ledbury foreign, Leadon otherwise Leadon and Haffield, Wellington, Mitchell and Netherton, Wall Hills, and Stapley otherwise Stapeley, all in the county of Hereford.

Typeface: Caslon, 1724.

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