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beth Road, Tyers Street, Auckland Street, Wandsworth Road,
Lavender Hill, St. John's Hill, East Hill, High Street, Wandsworth,
Buckhold Road, Merton Road, crossing Arthur Road near
the Wimbledon Park station to Wimbledon Hill Road. The
Council formally petitioned against the Bill with the view of
obtaining the insertion of provisions for the protection of this
Borough. The Bill was withdrawn.
King's Road
Railway
(Putney
Extension).
32.—This Bill was for the construction of an underground electric
railway from the junction of High Street, Putney,
with Montserrat Road, passing under the River
Thames to a point near the Victoria Station of the
Metropolitan District Railway, and terminating by a junction with
an intended railway there. The Council presented a petition against
the Bill with the view of obtaining the insertion of clauses for the
protection of the Borough, and suggested to the promoters that
the proposed station at Putney should be nearer Upper Richmond
Road than was proposed. The Bill was ordered to be consolidated
with the King's Road Railway (No. 1) Bill, and the Select
Committee of the House of Commons subsequently reported that
it was not expedient to proceed further with the Bill.
London
United
Electric
Railways.
33.—The object of this Bill was to obtain powers to construct
underground electric railways from Shepherd's Bush
and Hammersmith to Barnes, Charing Cross, Clapham
Junction and Marble Arch. The part of the
scheme which affected this Borough was a railway from the junction
of Sangora Road with St. John's Hill, near the Clapham Junction
railway station in the Borough of Battersea, following the course
of St. John's Hill, Lavender Hill, as far as Garfield Road, from
whence the line would curve into Queen's Road, about 200 feet
south of Robertson Street, and would then pass along Queen's
Road and under the River Thames near the Chelsea Suspension
Bridge. As the only portion of the proposed railway which would
have been situated in this Borough was a length of about 200 feet
in Queen's Road, and the portion of Queen's Road in question
having been placed under the control of the Battersea Borough
Council, this Council took no action with regard to the Bill.