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 Rennie and Mr. Murray, for supplying the town of Bodmin with coal, and for conveying minerals from the mines in its neighbourhood. Its direction would have been south-east for about five miles, at a small elevation above the sea, near the north-west coast of Cornwall. Not having been executed, it is unnecessary to quote the proposed tonnage rates.

POLLOC AND GOVAN RAILWAY.
11 George IV. Cap. 62, Royal Assent 29th May, 1830.

THIS railway commences from the River Clyde, at the south quay of the Broomielaw in the city of Glasgow, from whence it crosses the road leading from Paisley to the last-mentioned place, then crosses and runs parallel with the private railway leading from the Govan Colliery to Tradestown; and shortly afterwards it crosses, at right angles, the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, near its termination at Port Eglinton; thence to Port Eglinton Street, where it terminates after forming a junction with the Govan Railway.

It is in length only one thousand four hundred and eighty-eight yards, with a total rise from the quay of 39 feet 5 inches. There is a branch to Sir John Maxwell's Estate, at Polloc, of three hundred and twelve yards in length, and another near its termination, to the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, at Port Eglinton, of two hundred and eighty-nine yards in length. The line and branches were designed by Mr. Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, who estimated

The act authorizing the making of this railway bears date the 29th May, 1830, and is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Lands of Polloc and Govan, to the River Clyde, at the Harbour of Broomielaw, in the county of Lanark, with a Branch to commnnicate therefrom.' The