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70 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
This year the Company seek for powers to construct
two Railways, viz.:—
Railway No. 1.—5 miles, 7 furlongs, 4.10
chains, commencing in the Parish of Hammersmith,
at or near the Eastern angle of
Shepherd's Bush Green, and terminating in
the Parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, in the
City of London, in Cornhill, at a point 20
yards or thereabouts, measured in a Westerly
direction, from the junction of Birchin Lane
with Cornhill.
Railway No. 1a.—1 furlong 7.20 chains long,
is wholly in the Parish of Hammersmith,
commencing at the Northern end of Caxton
Road, and terminating by a junction with
Railway No. 1, at its commencement, as
herein-before described.
The Plans and Longitudinal Section show Railway
No. 1 to pass under the entire length of
Uxbridge Road, in this Parish, for a distance
of one mile, 3 furlongs, 6¾ chains.
As the Gradients of the Railway are not stated on
the Longitudinal Section, I have taken the depth of
the rails from roadway surface, as follows :—
Feet
deep.
At the Western Boundary by Palace Gardens,
it is shown to be
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