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London United
Tramways Co.
This Company promoted a Bill to authorise
them to construct the following amongst
other tramways, viz •—
(a) Tramway No. 1 Commencing in Upper Richmond
Road, Putney, by a junction with Tramway No. 9 at a
point 14 yards west of Roehampton Lane, passing
along the road leading across Barnes Common, Rocks
Lane, &c., to the Broadway, Hammersmith.
(b) Tramway No. 1a. Commencing in Upper Richmond
Road by a junction with Tramway No. 9 at a point
36 yards east of Roehampton Lane, passing into and
terminating in the road leading accross Barnes
Common to Rocks Lane by a junction with Tramway
No. 1 at a point 30 yards north of Upper Richmond
Road.
(c) Tramway No. 9. Commencing in Kew Road, Richmond,
and passing along Church Road, Sheen Road and
Upper Richmond Road, and terminating in the lastnamed
road at a point 24 yards west of Putney Hill.
The Council opposed the Bill upon the following
grounds viz:—
1. That if a tramway be constructed in the proposed road in
this Borough it should be a double line and that the
road should be previously widened to not less than
fifty-four feet.
2. That the tramway is unnecessary.
3. That the London County Council have a system of
tramways in the Borough
The Mayor gave evidence against the Bill on behalf
of the Council before the Committee of the House of
Commons; the scheme was also strongly opposed by
residents in the locality, and in the end the provisions
relating to this Borough were struck out by the
Committee.
Electrical
Traction on
Tramways
As stated in the last report of the Wands-
worth District Board, the Board continued
its opposition to this Bill in the House of
Lords with the view of obtaining the insertion of
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