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(43)
The Bill was introduced into the House of Commons,
read a first time, and duly referred to a Committee, but
prior to the meeting of this Committee, the Promoters of
the Bill entered into negotiation with your Board, which
resulted in their undertaking to insert certain clauses in
their Bill, by which the objections of your Board would be
fully met. They also entered into a written Agreement
with you, by which the Promoters bound themselves at their
own cost to widen the public way of Little Queen Street,
so far as they acquired property in that street, and also to
contribute a certain sum of money towards the cost of the
Board's opposition to their Bill.
Your opposition was accordingly withdrawn, but the Bill
was ultimately rejected by the Committee, who reported to
the House that they considered its Preamble was not
proved.
The Mid-London Electric Railway.
This was another scheme for which plans and notices
were deposited at the Private Bill Office.
It comprised a line of underground railway commencing
at the west end of Oxford Street, proceeding thence
beneath the public way of Oxford Street, New Oxford
Street, High Holborn, Holborn Circus, Snow Hill, Holborn
Viaduct, Newgate Street, and Cheapside, to a termination
in Cornhill near to the south-west corner of the Royal
Exchange.
It was to consist of a double line of tunnel almost entirely
beneath public ways, its depth beneath the street surface
in New Oxford Street and High Holborn being from
70 to 80 feet.