West Wallsend and Monk-Wearmouth Railway Act of 1886 50 Vic (NSW)

An Act to enable the West Wallsend Coal want? sso Company (Limited) and the Monk- ""xiwsc™ Wearmouth Colliery Estate Company of = ~~ Australia (Limited) to construct a Rail- way from the West Wallsend Coal-fields to the Sydney and Waratah Railway.

[27th August, 1886. |

IZEREAS certain persons now residing in the Colony of New Preamble. South Wales propose opening coal-mines and_ establishing collieries on a parcel of land situated near Newcastle in the parish of Teralba county of Northumberland and with others have formed them- selves into Companies called the "West Wallsend Coal Company (Limited) and the Monk-Wearmouth Colliery Estate Company of Aus- tralia (Limited)" and in order to facilitate communication between the said coal-mines and the Sydney and Waratah Railway such persons are desirous

Authority to con- struct railway and connect same with

Sydney and Waratah way from the

Railway.

Site of railway skall be vested in the Companies without conveyance,

50° VIC.

West Wallsend and Monk-Wearmouth Railway.

1886.

desirous of constructing a railway from their said coal-mines to the Sydney and Waratah Railway but as part of such proposed railway is intended to be made upon and pass through land believed to be the property of the Crown bodies corporate and private persons respectively the same cannot be made without Legislative authority And whereas the said coal-mines are likely to prove beneficial to the Colony and the public are concerned in promoting such an inerease in and facili- ties for the supply of coal for local consumption steam navigation and export as would result from the construction of the said proposed railway and the traffic on the Sydney and Waratah Railway would be inereased thereby It is therefore desirable to authorize by Legislative enactment the construction of the said railway subject to the provi- sions hereinafter contained upon payment of compensation to the several parties through whose lands the same shall pass for such portion of their respective lands as may he required to be taken and occupied thereby Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excel- lent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled anc by the authority of the same as follows :