Statute Law Repeals - Law Commission - Ministry of Justice

1893: Provisional Order Confirmation Act
9.215 The Railway Rates and Charges (Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway, &c.)
Order Confirmation Act 1893 452 listed four railway companies which were deemed
to have their maximum rates and charges fixed by previous specific confirmation
Acts. The Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway 453 was thus deemed to have
been included within the South-Eastern Railway Company (Rates and Charges)
Order Confirmation Act 1891 454 for the purpose of merchandise charging.
1894: Provisional Order Confirmation Acts
9.216 The Railway Rates and Charges (Easingwold Railway, &c.) Order Confirmation
Act 1894 455 adopted a format similar to that employed in the 1893 Act. The 1894
Act applied various previous confirmation Acts to some seven railway company
operations, of which none had any apparent connection with any other. The
companies ranged from Harrow and Stanmore in England to Crieff and Comrie in
Scotland and to South Clare in Ireland. The Easingwold Railway in the title
opened in 1891 and was worked eventually by the North Eastern Railway,
although it remained an independent operation (avoiding nationalisation) until
closure in 1957.
9.217 The Mersey Railway (Rates and Charges) Act 1894 456 effected a change to the
railway company’s charging arrangements by removing it from one statutory
regime and transplanting it within another. The Mersey Railway, which ran in a
tunnel beneath the river and a substantial proportion of urban area, opened in
1886 and converted from steam to electric traction in 1903. In 1894 it needed to
increase its merchandise traffic (and its revenues). The Mersey Railway had
originally been governed by the 1892 (No. 18) Act (see above) relating to the Taff
Vale Railway. By 1894 it was clear that the challenges (and costs) associated
with a river tunnel railway - such as water pumping and ventilation - were more
akin to those of the East London Railway. Accordingly the No. 18 Act was
disapplied (by omission) and the charging regime in the 1892 (No. 5) Act relating
to the East London Railway was applied (by insertion). No provisional order as
such was attached to the 1894 Act. The Mersey Railway was eventually
nationalised in 1948.
452 56 & 57 Vict. c.cxii (1893).
453 The railway was only fully operational by 1893, and it was run from the outset by the
South-Eastern Railway (which absorbed the company in 1900).
454 54 & 55 Vict. c.ccxx (1891): see above. The other three companies (which had no
geographic nexus) were the Glyn Valley Tramway Company (which referred back to the
1892 (No. 6) Act, above), the Manchester Ship Canal Company (which was linked to the
1891 LNWR Act, above), and the Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester, and Midland Junction
Railway Company (which was deemed named in the 1892 (No.11) Act, above).
455 57 & 58 Vict. c.xlviii (1894).
456 57 & 58 Vict. c.lxxii (1894).
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