Hartley Vale Colliery Railway Act 1867 31 Vic (NSW)

An Act to enable James Brown Alexander Brown (Year var

Conigey Railway.

and Stephen Foyle to construct a Railway — from certain Collieries near Newcastle to and

to connect the same with the Great Northern Railway. [23rd December, 1867. |

HWEREAS James Brown Alexander Brown and Stephen Foyle Preamble.

hereinafter designated the promoters have opened Coal Mines and established Collieries on certain lands situate near Newcastle in the county of Northumberland and in order to facilitate communica- tion between the same and the Great Northern Railway are desirous of constructing certain Railways that is to say a Railway from the said Coal Mines and Collierics to the said Great Northern Railway from the northern boundary of James Brown and Alexander Brown's three hundred and twenty acres (situate in the parish of Newcastle) and passing in a north-easterly direction through Crown Lands thence through fifty-four and three hundred and ten acres leased to the said James Brown and Alexander Brown and known as the Hartley Vale Colliery thence through Crown land thence through land sold by the Crown to the late Henry Dangar and now belonging or supposed to belong to his representatives thence through a portion of the Australian Agricultural Company's land to the Great Northern Railway inter- secting the same at a point terminating two miles seventy-eight chains or thereabouts from the city of Newcastle and at such termination to effect. a junction to and with the said Great Northern Railway And also a Branch Line from the line above described commencing at the northern boundary line of the said three hundred and ten acres and running south-westerly through a portion of the said three hundred and ten acres and thence continuing through James and Alexander Brown's two hundred and eighty acres to the western boundary thereof And whereas the said Coal Mines and Collieries are likely to prove