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Railway and other Schemes.
Plans and Notices for the following Schemes affecting
this District were duly deposited at the Private Bill Office
in anticipation of the present Session of Parliament:—
The Central Metropolitan Railway,
The Mid Metropolitan Railway,
The St. Pancras Workhouse Extension.
They were reported on at length by your Surveyor on 14th
February, 1882.
The Central Metropolitan Railway was a proposed line
of Underground Railway, about 37 ft. deep, to run from
King's Cross to Westminster, entering your District at
Hunter Street, crossing High Holborn by Little Queen
Street, thence down Little Queen Street and Great Queen
Street (both of which thoroughfares it was proposed to
widen), and thence beneath Long Acre, St. Martin's Lane,
Charing Cross, &c. to Westminster. After full consideration
of the merits of the proposed Scheme your Board
petitioned the Legislature against it. The Bill passed the
Standing Orders of the House of Commons, but was rejected
by the House on the second reading.
The Mid Metropolitan Railway was a proposed line of
railway from the Uxbridge Road (near to the West Junction
Railway) to the Minories in the City of London. It
was proposed to enter your District in New Oxford Street
by Tottenham Court Road, and thence along New Oxford
Street and High Holborn; it was to be entirely underground,
at depths of about 30 to 35 feet, and to be worked
on the pneumatic principle by stationary engines fixed at
permanent stations on its line of route. The Promoters