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  'last-mentioned Canal, at or near Apedale, to certain Coal and other Works, all in the county of Stafford;' in which is pointed out the utility of a canal, with inclined planes or railways, from the Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal to that of Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley; as also of another, from the last-mentioned canal at Apedale to the works of Sir John Edensor Heathcote, Thomas Kinnersley and John Wedgwood, Esquires. A company is therefore incorporated, as "The Newcastle-under-Lyne Junction Canal Company," with power to execute the same, and to raise for that purpose £8,000, in shares of £50 each; and if needful, they may raise £4,000 additional, either by new shares, or by mortgage of the rates. For paying interest and other charges they are empowered to demand the following

TONNAGE RATES.
Fractions of a Mile to be considered as a Mile.

The company may convey water through Sir Nigel Bowyer Gresley's Canal to supply their own, but are not to draw it down below the highest present level. The direction of the canal is north-west, commencing in the Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal at the south-east part of that town, and terminating in the south-west in Gresley's Canal; in which canal at Apedale its western part commences and extends to Partridge Nest and Bignel-End Collieries.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.
10 George IV. Cap. 72, Royal Assent 22nd May, 1829.

THE projectors of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway, foreseeing the advantages likely to arise from a communication between that place and Carlisle, applied to parliament for a legislative authority for the same, which was obtained under title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad, from the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of the town of