Coal Owners Associated London Railway

Description:

- Construction of a railway to form a line of communication between the South Yorkshire collieries and London, as follows:

Railway No. 1:

- Commencing in the parish of St. Mary, Stratford-le- Bow, adjoining the Lee Union Canal, and terminating by a junction with the G.E.R. in Low Leyton Marsh, in the parish of Leyton, (co. Essex.)

Railway No. 2

- Railway commencing in the parish of Trumpington (co. Cambridgeshire), by a junction with the G.E.R., and terminating about 36 chains (792 yards) North of Long Stanton, (co. Cambridgeshire) Station.

Railway No. 3

- Commencing by a junction with St. Ives and Cambridge branch of the G.E.R. in Longstanton and terminating in the parish of Bourne (co. Lincolnshire).

Railway No. 4

- Commencing by a junction with Railway No. 3 and terminating in the parish of Kirkby-la-Thorpe, approximately one mile from Sleaford station.

Railway No. 5

- Commencing by a junction with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, Market Rasen, Branch Railway at a point about 65 chains (1,210 yards) to the West of the bridge carrying the Lincoln and Fiskerton road over the railway.

Additional lands on the banks of the Regents' Canal.

Passing through the following parishes:

- Railway No. 1

- St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow (co. Middlesex), St. John at Hackney (co. Middlesex), Leyton (co. Essex).

- Railway No. 2

- Trumpington, Grantchester, St. Giles in Cambridge, Chesterton, Impington, Histon, Oakington, Long Stanton St. Michael and All Saints, Rampton, Willingham (all co. Cambridgeshire).

- Railway No. 3

- Long Stant All Saints, Rampton, Willingham, Over, (all co. Cambridgeshire).

(Railway No. 3 - parishes)

- Bluntisham-cum-Earith, Colne, Somersham, Pidley-cum-Fenton, Warboys, Wistow, Bury, Ramsey, Farcet (all co. Huntingdonshire).

- St. John the Baptist in Peterborough, Paston, Werrington, Peakirk, Northborough, Maxey (all co. Northamptonshire).

- Deeping St. James, Market Deeping, Langtoft, Baston, Thurlby, Bourne (all co. Lincolnshire).

- Railway No. 4

- Bourne, Morton, Haconby, Dunsby, Rippingale, Dowsby, Aslackby, Sempringham, Billingborough, Horbling, Sparby, Scredington, Burton Pedwardine, Kirkby-la-Thorpe (all co. Lincolnshire).

- Railway No. 5

- Kirkby-la-Thorpe, Old Sleaford, New Sleaford, Leasingham, Ruskington, Bloxholme, Digby, Roulston, Scopwick, Kirkby Green, Blankney, Metheringham, Dunston, Nocton, Potter Hanworth, Branston, Washingborough, Greetwell, Cherry Willingham (all co. Lincolnshire).

Additional lands in the parishes of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green and St. Pancras (both in co. Middlesex.)

Comprising:

- Plans and sections. 40 sheets, each 22 x 30.

- Book of reference.

- Ordnance survey sheets, (2). Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile.

- Printed summary of bill.

Scales:

- Plans and sections: Horizontal- 6 chains (132 yards) to 1 inch; Vertical- 60 feet to 1 inch.

- Cross Sections: Horizontal- 5 chains (110 yards) to 1 inch; Vertical- 40 feet to 1 inch.

Engineer: Charles Bartholew, Broxholme, Doncaster.

Plan deposited 30 November, 1870.