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The Great Northern Railway. thorpe, and , and terminating at the Extension to and Wakefield,—Deviation o; Victoria Colliery Railway, near the junction of the Methley Branch of Wakefield, , ahc said Colliery Railway with a railway belonging to Goole Railway. the undertakers of the Aire and Calder Navigation OTICE is hereby given, that application is in- in the township of Stanley-cum-Wrenthorpe, in N tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing the parish of Wakefield. session, for an Act to enable the Great Northern Fourthly—Also another short'branch railway or Railway Company, incorporated by the Great Nor- curve of communication, diverging from the in- thern Railway Act, 1846, to make and maintain tended main line of railway 'in the township and the railway and branch railways hereinafter spe- parish of Methley, at a point one furlong and fifty cified, with all necessary and convenient stations, yards distant south-west from the bridge of the warehouses, wharfs, communications, approaches, York and over the river conveniences, and works connected therewith, that Calder, and terminating in the said township and is to say,— parish of Methley by a junction with the Midland First—A main line of railway, commencing by Railway at a point about two furlongs south of the a junction with the parliamentary line of the bridge carrying the said Midland Railway over the Methley Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Leeds and Barnsdale turnpike-road. Goole Railway, at a field there belonging to John And it is intended by the said Act to enable the Sagar, and in the occupation of John Booth and Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway Com- James Booth, or one of them, at the distance of one pany to abandon the formation of a certain por- furlong north-west from the point where the said tion of their branch to Methley, authorized to be Methley Branch Railway crosses Carr Lane, in the made by the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole township of Glass Houghton, in the parish of Cas- Railway Branches Act, 1846, that is to say,—so tleford, in the West Riding of the county of York, much of the said Methley Branch Railway as lies and thence passing from, in, through, or into the between a field or property in the township of several parishes, townships, hamlets, extra-parochial Glass Houghton, in the parish of , num- and oth'er places of Castleford, , Whit- bered 38 in the township of Glass Houghton, on. wood, Glass Houghton, Normantou, Methley, the deposited Parliamentary plans of the said , Oulton-cum-Woodlesford, Oulton, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway Rhodes' Green otherwise Royd's Green, Ouzlewell Branches, and the point of junction of the said Green, Carlton, Lofthouse, Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, Methley Branch with the said Midland or North Haigh, Rothwell, Rothwell Haigh, Woodhouse Hill, Midland Railway in the said township and parish Middleton, Hunslet, Hoi beck, Beeston, Wortley, of Methley near Robinson's Bridge, as shewn on Upper Wortley, New Wortley, and Leeds, in the the said deposited plans, which said abandoned West Riding of the county of York, and terminat- portion of the said Methley Branch Railway will ing by a junction with the parliamentary line of the pass through the several parishes, townships, ham- West Riding Union Railways, in the township of lets, and extra-parochial places of Glass Houghton, Wortley, in the parish of Leeds, in the said West Castleford, Whitwood, Featherstone, and Methley, Riding, at a point where the said last-mentioned or some of them, all in the said West Riding. parliamentary line of railway crosses Spence And it is intended in the said Act to 'take Lane. powers to make lateral deviations from the lines Secondly—Also a railway diverging from and of the said railway and branch railways, as laid out of the said main line of railway in the town- down on the plans deposited as hereinafter men- ship of Carlton, in the parish of Rothwell, in the tioned, to the extent shown thereon -, and to alter, West Riding of the county of York, in or near a divert, or stop up, whether temporarily or perma- field belonging to John Blayds, Esq., and in the nently, all such turnpike-roads, paiish roads, and occupation of Mr. Edward Wright, and at or near other highways, canals, navigations, <*iid railways, the highway leading from Carlton to Ouzlewell tramroads, rivers, drains, brooks, streams, and Green, and thence passing from, in, through, or watercourses within the places aforesaid, as may into Rothwell, Carlton, Ouzlewell Green, Lee Moor, be required to be so altered, diverted, or stopped Lofthouse, Lofthouse-cum-Carlton, Stanley, Wren- up, for the purposes of such railway and branch thorpe, Stanley-cum-Wrenthorpe, Lake Lock, and railways; and also powers authorizing junctions Wakefield, in the said West Riding, and terminat- with any railway or railways at the commence- ing by a junction with the line of the Manchester ment or termination, or on the line or course and Leeds Railway at or about three furlongs east thereof in the several places aforesaid. And it is or north-east of the Wakefield station, in the town- also intended by the said Act to apply for powers ship of Stanley cum-Wrenthorpe, and parish of to purchase lands, houses, and buildings by com- Wakefield, in the said West Riding. pulsion for the purposes aforesaid, and to vary or Thirdly—Also another railway diverging from extinguish any rights or privileges connected the intended main line of railway in the township with such lands, houses, and buildings, which can and parish of Methley, in the West Riding of the in any manner interfere with the execution of the county of York, at or near a point where the said aforesaid works; and also powers to levy tolls, main line crosses Hungate Lane, and about thirty rates, and duties in respect of the use of the yards north from the point of junction of the said said proposed railway and branch railways and lane with Methley Lane, and thence passing from, other works, and to grant and confer exemptions in, through, or into Methley, Newmarket, Bottom- from such tolls, rates, and duties. boat, Lake Lock, Stanley, Stanley-cum-Wren- And for the purposes aforesaid, it is intended by