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The County Council and the Vestry should require payment from the Company
of all rates upon the properties proposed to he demolished, until the railway is
constructed aud assessable.
A complete inventory of the several properties and their assessments, should be
taken by the responsible department.
THE CITY AND SOUTH LONDON RAILWAY.
(Islington Extension).
This railway would commence in the Parish of St. George-the- Martyr,
Southwark, by a junction with the Company's existing underground railway, and
terminate in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, near to the Northern end of City
Road. It would enter Shoreditch at the Parish boundary, near to Messrs.
Champion's Vinegar works, proceed in a North-Westerly direction underneath the
carriage-way of City Road, and leave the Parish at its boundary, opposite Britannia
Street.
A short length of City Road within Shoreditch Parish, would also be tunnelled
opposite the Vestry Hall of St. Luke's Parish.
Standard guage (4ft. 8£in.) would be adopted for the railway, and the "motive
power would be electricity or any other mechanical power other than steam
locomotives." "The up and down lines would be placed in separate tunnels, each
circular in section, and of 11½ feet internal diameter, with enlargements for station
platforms; and it is proposed to afford access to the railway by means of stairs and
lifts."
The depth from surface of carriageway to soffit of tunnels, would be approximately
55 feet within Shoreditch Parish. It appears doubtful whether this would
be sufficiently deep to permit the proposed Great Northern and City Railway to pass
overhead.
The length of Railway within the Parish would be about 242 lineal yards.
Special attention should be given to clauses by which the Company seek power,
"To cross, stop up, or divert either temporarily or permamently, any roads, streets,
&c.; also sewers, drains, &c."
The Sewer below City Road belongs tc the London County Council, but the
Vestry has a considerable area of the Parish draining into this sewer.
Also "To construct and maintain shafts or openings from the surface of the
road, &c., to any portion of the proposed railway.
These shafts might be an obstruction to the sewers, and become a nuisance to
the public overhead.
Also "To deviate from the levels as shown."