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the new lines. This agreement provides, inter alia, that the
Company shall not run any Tramcars eastward beyond the principal
entrance of the Hop and Malt Exchange earlier than ten o'clock
a.m., except upon Sundays and public holidays, and that they
shall pay the Board nine shillings per superficial yard for all paving
stones taken up by them in the construction of the proposed lines
prior to the commencement of the works. The Bill came before a
Select Committee of the House of Commons, and was opposed by
the London Tramways Company and the South Western Railway
Company. After hearing counsel on both sides the Committee
reported in favour of the Bill, subject to the introduction of clauses
to meet the objections of the two Companies referred to, namely:
(a) To authorise the Metropolitan Board of Works, at any time
after the expiration of three years from the opening of the Tramways
in Lambeth Palace Road and York Road, Lambeth, if they
shall be of opinion that an inquiry should be held as to whether
the working of those Tramways is prejudicial to the public interest
by reason of their causing an undue obstruction to the traffic
passing to and from the station of the London and South Western
Railway Company in York Road, Lambeth, to order such inquiry,
and thereafter, if satisfied that the same should be removed or
altered, to make an order to that effect; (b) to enable the Commissioners
of Police of the Metropolis, with the approval of the
Secretary of State, by order to prohibit the Tramcars from passing
along the York Road upon certain days and between such hours
as they may think fit; and (c) for the South London Company's
Cars to give precedence to those of the London Tramways Company
at the crossings. Thus amended the Bill has passed the House of
Commons, and is now before the Lords. The Lines sanctioned by
the Act of 1881, excepting a short length at the foot of Southwark
Bridge, were opened for public traffic on the 28th May, 1883.
Blackfriars
Road and
HolbornValley
Tramways.
Plans were deposited in November last of Blackfriars Road and
Holborn Valley Tramways, which Tramways were intended to
commence at the terminus of the London Tramway Company's
Lines in Blackfriars Road, and proceed over Blackfriars Bridge en
route to Farringdon Street, City. The Bill was not proceeded
with beyond its preliminary stages.