Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

9.31 In the event, the railway project was abandoned. On 16 March 1870 a Board of
Trade warrant was issued ordering that the railway should be abandoned. 44 The
railway company itself was wound up in 1875. Accordingly all three Acts have
become obsolete.
(10) Clay Cross Railway Company
9.32 The Clay Cross Railway Act 1902 45 was passed to authorise the Clay Cross
Railway Company to construct a railway in Derbyshire connecting the Clay Cross
Collieries and works with the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
near Chesterfield. The purpose of the Clay Cross Railway (Abandonment) Act
1905 46 was to authorise the abandonment of these railway construction
proposals 47 and the dissolution of the company.
9.33 The dissolution of the company in 1905 and the consequential abandonment of
the railway project means that both the 1902 and 1905 Acts have become
obsolete.
(11) Columbia Market Railway
9.34 The Columbia Market Act 1885 48 was passed to authorise the construction of two
short railways and a street near Bethnal Green in the east end of London. The
railways and street were intended to benefit Columbia Market 49 by connecting the
market with the North London Railway. The powers given by the 1885 Act were
extended by the Columbia Market (Extension of Time) Act 1888. 50
9.35 The purpose of the Columbia Market Railways (Abandonment) Act 1890 51 was to
authorise the abandonment of the railway and street construction proposals. The
preamble to the 1890 Act recorded that it was expedient that these proposals
should be abandoned. The failure to implement the proposals means that the
1885, the 1888 and the 1890 Acts have all become obsolete.
(12) Cork and Fermoy and Waterford and Wexford Railway Company
9.36 The Cork and Fermoy and Waterford and Wexford Railway Act 1890 52 was
passed to authorise the Cork and Fermoy and Waterford and Wexford Railway
Company to construct a railway in the counties of Waterford, Kilkenny and
Wexford, an area that now falls within the Republic of Ireland.
44 The London Gazette, 22 March 1870, p 1838.
45 2 Edw.7 c.clxxxiii.
46 5 Edw.7 c.xxvii.
47 The decline in trade and the depressed state of the money markets had made it impossible
to raise the capital required for the railway construction.
48 48 & 49 Vict. c.lxxiv.
49 Columbia Market was established in 1869 as a covered food market by the philanthropist
Angela Burdett-Coutts. The market became unprofitable and closed in 1886 with just a
street market remaining. Today the market is used as a Sunday flower market.
50 51 & 52 Vict. c.iii.
51 53 & 54 Vict. c.iii.
52 53 & 54 Vict. c.ccxlii.
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