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.