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GOLDSMITHS ROW WIDENING and RECREATION GROUND.
The widening of a portion of Goldsmiths Row and Square was commenced and
completed by the London County Council at the close of 1891, and arrangements
are in progress for the formation of a Recreation Ground for which land has been
purchased, measurements were taken and several plans of the site were prepared in
the Surveyor's Department.
BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
The following report was submitted by your Surveyor in compliance with
instructions having reference to proposed Railways through Shoreditch Parish. The
London, Tottenham and Epping Railway scheme was withdrawn. The Great
Northern and City Railway project, with certain modifications, was passed into
law during the last session of Parliament, whilst the City and South London
Railway scheme was postponed.
LONDON, TOTTENHAM AND EPPING FOREST RAILWAY.
A most exhaustive report on the above having been printed and circulated, and
the scheme withdrawn as previously intimated, it is unnecessary to reproduce it here.
GREAT NORTHERN AND CITY RAILWAY.
This railway would commence by a junction with the Great Northern
Railway at Finsbury Park, and terminate in the Parish of St. Stephen, Coleman
Street, E.C., near to the junction of Finsbury Pavement with West Street. It
would enter Shoreditch at the parish boundary Northward of the Regent's Canal
bridge, New North Road, proceed in a Southerly direction, underneath 6 streets
and roads, viz.:—
New North Road East Road
Murray Street Allerton Street
Fairbank Street City Road,
and leave the Parish at the boundary near to Messrs. Champion's Vinegar Works.
The greater portion of the railway would probably be underground, having
standard rail gauge, 4ft. 8½in., adopted.
The motive power employed would be electricity or "other motive power as
the Board of Trade may sanction."
The up and down lines would be placed in separate tunnels of 16 feet internal
diameter with enlargements for platforms at the stations, and it is proposed to
afford access to the railway by means of stairs and lifts.