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Title: Report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade on the
London, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and on the Birmingham and
Shrewsbury Districts

Author: Samuel Laing

Release Date: January 16, 2007 [eBook #20388]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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RAILWAYS.
REPORT of the RAILWAY DEPARTMENT of the BOARD of TRADE on the _London_,
_Worcester_, and _Wolverhampton_, and on the _Birmingham_ and _Shrewsbury
Districts_.

(_Presented to Parliament by Her Majesty's Command_.)

_Ordered_, _by_ The House of Commons, _to be Printed_,
28 _February_ 1845.

83--2.

_Under 2 oz._

Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, 28 February 1845.

The Board constituted by Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, for the transaction of Railway business, having had
under consideration the different schemes deposited with the Railway
Department for extending Railway communication between London, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, and in the district intermediate between the London
and Birmingham and Great Western Railways, and also, in connexion with
the above, the schemes for extending Railway communication between
Birmingham and Shrewsbury, have determined on submitting the following
Report thereon for the consideration of Parliament.

The object of the first class of schemes in question is to supply Railway
communication to the great mining district of Staffordshire, lying south
of Wolverhampton, to the towns of Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Stourport,
Worcester, &c., and to the district north of Oxford, intermediate between
the Great Western and London and Birmingham Railways.

For this purpose two competing schemes are proposed; one, which is
promoted by the London and Birmingham Company, comprises a line from
Rugby to Oxford, and another