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West London Extension and Surrey Commercial
Docks Railway;
The Peckham and East Dulwich Tramways Bill; and
The Metropolitan Board of Works Various Powers
Bill (included in which was power to construct a bridge over
the Surrey Canal at Canterbury road, near the Old Kent
road).
The West London Extension and Surrey Commercial
Docks Railway was a scheme for the construction of a railway
from the Extension Railway at Battersea to the Surrey Commercial
Docks, and junctions with the Brighton, East London,
and South Eastern Railways; to enter this Parish at or near
Toulon street, Avenue road, across the boundary again at the
rear of Avenue road (north side), and re-cross the Parish
boundary at Camberwell road, opposite the head of the Grand
Surrey Canal, the line of which it was then proposed to take,
converting such canal into a railway for the entire length
thereof to the Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe.
Messrs. Cope & Co., 3, Great George street, Westminster,
Solicitors to the Bill.
Note.—This Bill has been Avithdrawn.
The Peckham and Past Dulwich Tramways Bill was
specially reported upon to the General Purposes Committee
by your Surveyor, in January last, in the following manner:
"Peckham and East Dulwich Tramways.
"The Company, representing the above lines of Tramway,
having deposited a Bill for the consideration of Parliament
in the next Session, I beg to lay before your Committee the