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TRAMWAYS.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company again introduced a Bill
into Parliament to enable them to (amongst other things) lay down
Tramways along Bethnal Green Road, from Cambridge Eoad to the
Company's lines in Shoreditch. The Vestry refused to give the consent
required by the standing orders of the House of Commons, and the
Company abandoned so much of their Bill as related to the proposed
lines along Bethnal Green Road.
COLUMBIA MARKET.
A deputation, from the salesmen of the Market, waited on the Vestry
to ask its opinion on the subject of a Railway communication being
made into the Market. The Vestry passed a resolution that such
communication was most desirable for the development of the Market,
and would be highly beneficial to the East of London. A Bill to
confer powers to make a line to the Market from the North London
Railway was brought in. The line will cross Hackney Road by an
iron girder bridge. The Vestry desired that the road should be crossed
in a tunnel. Negotiations took place with the Promoters, and two
conferences, between the Works Committee and a Committee of the
Shoreditch Vestry, were held at the Shoreditch Town Hall, At the
second conference, the engineer and solicitor of the Promoters were
present. The engineer explained the difficulties that would attend
the construction and use of a tunnel, and also that if a tunnel were
practicable, it could not be made and the necessary property acquired
under the Bill, which would have to be withdrawn, and another Bill
brought in next year. The conference came to the conclusion, in which
the respective Vestries concurred, that it was not desirable to press the
point as to having a tunnel. The bridge is to be an iron girder one,
of a single span, the clear width of the road, of a clear height of not
less than 18 feet, of a reasonably ornamental design, to be approved
by the Vestry and the Metropolitan Board of Works, to be made
watertight, and so as to deaden sound as far as possible, and no part
of the bridge is to be used for advertising purposes without the
permission of the Vestries of Shoreditch and this Parish, and the
bridge is not to be used as a lay-by for engines, trucks, &c.