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Session 1892.— The only scheme of the present Session
affecting this Parish is the proposed Waterloo and Baker
Street Railway. The deposited plan shows that the contemplated
railway would enter the Parish at the south end
of the Haymarket, and pass along the centre of the Haymarket,
across Piccadilly, and along the centre of Tichborne
Street and Regent Street, at a depth of about 50 feet below
the surface of the street. A station would be constructed
at the northern end of the Haymarket and another at
Oxford Street Circus. The railway would be worked by
electricity in a separate up and down tube, and would be
confined to passenger and parcels traffic.
The Vestry opposed the Bill in its earliest stages, with a
view to obtain the insertion of additional clauses and
certain amendments in points of detail. Negotiations ensued
with the promoters, and there is every reason to believe
that all necessary safeguards for the interests of the
parishioners will be obtained. The Bill had not been read
a second time at Lady-day, and such of the Bills of the
present Session for projected railways in London as pass
second reading, are to be referred to a joint Committee of
Lords and Commons.
OVERHEAD WIRES.
The Vestry have on several occasions within the last ten
years urged upon the Government the necessity of legislative
control over the erection and maintenance of overhead
wires in London. The risk of danger was increasing each
year, with the age of the wires and their supports, the large
annual addition to the mileage of wires, and with what is.