Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

(34) Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Company (2)
9.82 The Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Act 1881 152 was passed to authorise
the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Company to construct a railway from
Hillingdon to Rickmansworth (Hertfordshire). The powers given by the 1881 Act
were extended by the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Act 1884 153 and by
the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Act 1886. 154
9.83 As with the earlier attempt to construct a railway along this route, the project had
to be abandoned. The purpose of the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway
(Abandonment) Act 1888 155 was to authorise the abandonment of the railway
project and the dissolution of the company. The dissolution of the company and
the abandonment of the railway project means that the 1884 and 1888 Acts have
become obsolete. 156
(35) Waterloo and Whitehall Railway Company
9.84 The Waterloo and Whitehall Railway Act 1865 157 was passed to authorise the
Waterloo and Whitehall Railway Company to construct a railway in central
London, between Great Scotland Yard (in the parish of St Martins-in-the-Fields)
and Waterloo station. 158 The powers given by the 1865 Act were extended by the
Waterloo and Whitehall Railway (Amendment) Act 1867 159 and by the Waterloo
and Whitehall Railway Act 1868. 160
9.85 In the event, the railway project was abandoned. On 2 September 1870 a Board
of Trade warrant was issued ordering that the railway should be abandoned. 161
The company itself was wound up in 1871. 162 The abandonment of the project
and the dissolution of the company means that the 1865, 1867 and 1868 Acts
have become obsolete.
152 44 & 45 Vict. c.clxxv.
153 47 & 48 Vict. c.cxciii.
154 49 & 50 Vict. c.xcii.
155 51 & 52 Vict. c.x.
156 The 1881 and 1886 Acts were repealed by the 1888 Act, s 7.
157 28 & 29 Vict. c.cclviii.
158 The railway would have been a pneumatic railway. In other words, the trains would have
been propelled through a tunnel by air pressure.
159 30 & 31 Vict. c.cxcvii.
160 31 & 32 Vict. c.clxix.
161 The London Gazette, 13 September 1870, p 4141.
162 The London Gazette, 12 May 1871, p 2296.
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