TRAMWAYS AND LIGHT RAILWAYS ON PUBLIC ROADS. RETURN OF ACCIDENTS (GENERAL) For the Month of 190 (To be forwarded to the Assistant Secretary, Railway Department, Board of Trade, S. W.) Entries in the column headed "Nature of Accident" should show under which of the following heads the several accidents fall, viz. :- 1. Collisions between two cars. 2. Collisions between cars and other vehicles. 3. Cars running away. 4. Cars derailed. 5. Passengers or persons in road knocked down or injured. 6. Other classes of accident. Accidents should, so far as possible, be grouped under these heads, in order of date. Accidents causing death or serious personal injury should be reported forthwith; other accidents monthly. III. TUBE AND OTHER RAILWAYS AUTHORISED TO BE WORKED BY ELECTRICAL POWER. (1.) THE VARIOUS COMPANIES SO AUTHORISED. Central London Railway Acts, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902 Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway Act, 1882.... Page 404 P. 404 1902 Great Northern and City Railway Acts, 1892, 1895, 1897, 1902.. p. 405 Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Acts, 1893, 1896, 1899, 1900, p. 405 Waterloo and City Railway Act, 1893 p. 406 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902 Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Acts, 1893, 1894, p. 406 Caledonian Railway Act, 1898... Vale of Rheidol Light Railway Acts, 1897, 1900.. Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway Acts, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902 City and Brixton Railway Acts, 1898, 1899, 1901 Metropolitan District Railway Acts, 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902.. Whitechapel and Bow Railway Acts, 1897, 1902. Wirral Railway Act, 1900... North-West London Railway Acts, 1899, 1902.. Great Northern and Strand Railway Acts, 1899, 1902 P. 412 p. 412 P. 413 Mersey Railway Act, 1900.. P. 413 pany's Act, 1900, 1902... South-Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railway Com P. 413 Bray and Enniskerry Railway Act, 1900 P. 414 South-Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway Act, 1901.. p. 414 p. 414 P. 414 Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway Act, 1901.. Edgware and Hampstead Railway Act, 1902 London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Act, 1902. . Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway Act, 1882. City and Railway Acts, 1884-1901. By the Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. ch. cclv.), a company was incorporated and empowered to construct a railway (underground) from Charing Cross to the Waterloo Station of the London and South-Western Railway and to be called the Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway. By sect. 39 it was provided that "The company shall not be entitled to use steam power upon the railway nor any mechanical motive power other than such as can be provided by electric means or apparatus." By the Charing Cross and Waterloo Electric Railway (Abandonment) Act, 1885, the abandonment of the railway was authorised. This Act proceeded on the recital that no portion of the authorised capital had been raised and none of the powers of the Act of 1882 in relation to the compulsory purchase of lands and making of the railway had been exercised. The City of London and Southwark Subway was authorised by an Act of 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. ch. clxvii.). It contained power to divide the shares into preferred and deferred; a general power to underpin houses and buildings within 100 feet of the subway; the carriages to be propelled by means other than steam locomotives, as the Board of Trade may from time to time approve. By an Act of 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. ch. cv.) the company obtained an extension to Kennington and Stockwell, and by an Act of 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. ch. cxiv.) the company's name became changed to the City and South London Railway Company: an extension to Clapham was authorised; and a clause in the Act of 1887, for the protection of the Postmaster-General, was repealed and a more stringent clause inserted for that purpose, as also a clause for the protection of the National Telephone Company. In 1893 the City and South London Railway Company came to Parliament for an extension to Islington, and by an Act (56 & 57 Vict. ch. ccxvii.) that extension was authorised. The Model Clause (special provisions as to the use of electrical power) was inserted in the Act, as were also various clauses for the protection of the Postmaster-General and various electric lighting, gas, water, railway, and other companies and parties. The company also obtained extension or amending Acts in 1895 (58 Vict. ch. xix.) ; 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. ch. cclii.); 1898 (61 Vict. ch. xi.); 1900 (63 Vict. ch. v.); and in 1901 (1 Edw. 7, ch. lxvi.). London The next tube railway to be sanctioned was the Central London Central Railway, authorised by an Act of 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. ch. cxcvi.) Railway Acts, from Shepherd's Bush to the Bank. It provided that the carriages 1891-1902. should be propelled by electricity, and contained clauses for the protection of the Postmaster-General and the National Telephone Company, and many protective clauses for various banks, insurance companies, railways, landowners and others, including the Gas Light and Coke Company. It also contained power to underpin houses and buildings within 100 feet. The company obtained another Act in 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. ch. ccxli.), giving them certain further powers and authorising additional works and containing many protective clauses as in the case of the former Act. Exten sion or amending Acts were also obtained in 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. ch. lvii.); 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. ch. clxxxv.); 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. ch. xxxvii.); and in 1901 (1 Edw. 7, ch. ccv.). In the Session of 1902 the company applied to Parliament for power to construct a railway from Hammersmith to the City of London, with connections with the existing railways of the company at each end. That Bill contained the Model Clause. As the result of the hearing before a Committee of the House of Lords, all the clauses relating to works were eliminated from the Bill, which subsequently passed unopposed. The Act as passed does not contain the Model Clause (2 Edw. 7, ch. cxlv.). By the Great Northern and City Railway Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. ch. ccxlii.), a company was incorporated to construct a railway from the Canonbury branch of the Great Northern Railway Company near Finsbury Park to the City, the motive power being electricity or such other motive power (not being steam locomotives) as the Board of Trade may approve. It contained clauses for the protection of the Postmaster-General and of various companies and interests, with powers to divide shares and underpin. By an Act of 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. ch. cxii.) an extension of time was granted, and by an Act of 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. ch. cxciii.) a further extension of time was granted and various amendments of former enactments made. By an Act of 1902 (2 Edw. 7, ch. ccxxii.) a short extension from Moorgate Street to Lothbury was authorised. By the Great Northern Railway (No. 2) Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, ch. cxxvi.), a portion of the railway authorised by the Act of 1892 was abandoned and a Great Northern and City Railway 1902. Baker Street and Waterloo 1893-1902. new piece of line in the parish of Islington was authorised to be constructed and leased to and worked by the Great Northern and City Company. By an Act of 1893 (56 Vict. ch. iv.) this railway was first Railway Acts, sanctioned. It contained a provision to the effect that, "except in the case of unforeseen accident or for the purpose of removing rain-water or other trifling amounts of water, no use shall be made of pumping or other modes of removing water from the work. The compressed air shall be used as herein before provided, and so as to restrain the advent or inflow of water into the tunnels." It authorised the construction of a generating station and stationary engine on lands described, and contained a provision to the following effect: "And the company shall in the construction, erection, and working of such station and engine use all reasonable care to prevent nuisance by vibration." It authorised the traffic on the railways to be worked by electricity or cable power, and contained clauses for the protection of the Postmaster-General, the National Telephone Company, the Gas Light and Coke Company, and various banks, insurance companies, railway companies, and others. It contained power to divide the shares, and to underpin houses and buildings within 100 feet. The company obtained an extension of time Act in 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. ch. ccxxvii.), which contained a clause for the protection of the Postmaster-General. In 1899 the company obtained a further Act (62 & 63 Vict. ch. cxcii.) authorising certain deviations and new works. This Act contained the Model Clause, as also various clauses for the protection of gas, water, electric supply, and other companies, as also clauses for the protection of the Postmaster-General and the National Telephone Company. In 1900 the company obtained a further Act (63 & 64 Vict. ch. ccxxv.) authorising further works, and the establishment of a generating station on described land in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. The Act contained the Model Clause and also various protective clauses. It contained no special provision on the subject of nuisance. See further an Act of the Session of 1902 (2 Edw. 7, ch. celv.). Waterloo and By the Waterloo and City Railway Act, 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. ch. clxxxvii.), a company was incorporated to construct an underground railway from near Waterloo Station to Mansion |