Accrington on Rails - The Tramways: A Complete History - Robert Kenyon

My Committee is still waiting for the reply from Rawtenstall and on receipt of that will be in a position to negotiate what price should be offered for the whole of the undertaking. As soon as the new committees are formed they will further consider your letter and I will let you know of their decision as and when. Yours faithfully, W. Musgrove. The Mayor reported that in the company of the Town Clerk he had met with the Chairman of the Haslingden Corporation Tramway Committee and their Town Clerk, to push that authority into moving forward with their inquiries into this matter. He had provisionally arranged for a further meeting to take place to go more fully into the project, after which he would report back. ( During November the following draft Bill passed through Parliament, which refers to a tramway which would have connected Accrington’s tramlines with those of Burnley Corporation in Rose Grove, a scheme which was not progressed, and became another ‘might have been’ .) ACCRINGTON & BURNLEY LIGHT RAILWAYS ACT 1896, of November 1901 (DRAFT) Order of the Light Railway Commissioners authorising the construction of a Light Railway, in the Boroughs of Accrington & Burnley and the rural district of Burnley, and the Parishes and Townships of Hapton and Huncoat in the County Palatine of Lancaster. (WHEREAS) An application was in November 1901 duly made to the Light Railway Commissioners by the Auxiliary & Light Railways Tramway Company Limited, in pursuance of the Light Railways Act 1896, for an order to authorise the construction of a light railway thereafter as described. (NOW) We the Light Railway Commissioners being satisfied after local inquiry of the expediency of granting the said application, do, in pursuance of the said Act, and by virtue of and in exercise of the powers thereby vested in and of every other power enabling us in this behalf Order this Act. SCHEDULE Give the authority to carry passengers, animals, goods and parcels. Give authorisation to convey all excavated and scavenged materials for re-use by the Corporation, without the imposition of tolls or charges. This limits the fares to no more than 1 penny per mile or part thereof. ANIMALS For every horse, mule or other beast of draught or burden, not to exceed 4 pence per mile. For every ox, cow, or bull not to exceed 3 pence per mile. For every calf, pig, sheep and small animal, not to exceed 1 pence per mile. GOODS For all coals, culm, cannel, limestone, chalk-limes, slates, clay, ironstone or scabbled stone for building, pitching and paving, slag, stone, salt and cinders and all undressed materials for the repair of public roads, not to exceed 2 pence per mile. For all pig-iron, bar-iron, sheet iron, iron slabs, plate iron, rolled iron, wrought iron specifically cast herein, and for heavy castings [including railway chairs], tiles, bricks, coke, charcoals, dung, manure and compost not more than 2½ pence per ton mile. For all sugar, grain, cornflower, hides, dyewood, earthen-wear, staves, deals and metals [excepting iron], nails, anvils, vices and chains, and for ‘light metal’ castings, not to exceed 3 pence per ton. For all cotton and wools, drugs, manufactured goods and all other wares or merchandise, fish, not to exceed 4 pence per ton mile. For all timber and wood not exceeding 3 pence per mile. With timber the weight shall be determined by imperial avoirdupois, with regard to timber 14 cubic feet of oak, mahogany, teak,

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