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

view taken by them that these alterations will result in the benefit to your Corporation, the public and my Company. I am yours obediently, W. JEFFS (Secretary). It was resolved the Committee approve the repaving of Peel Street forthwith, and that the Tramway Company was informed that if they found new Girder Rails and lay them, the Corporation would do the concreting, paving and other works required in the relaying and upgrading of this street. October A letter from the Tramway Company was read out to a meeting of the Town Council, requesting consent to the two passing loops on Peel Street being connected together by a double line, instead of the single line as was currently the situation. It was resolved a deputation would meet with the Directors of the Tramway Company, with respect to the proposed double line on Peel Street, as this meeting was not able to come to a conclusion on this matter. The Committee discussed the results of the deputations meeting with the Directors of the Tramway Company, with regard to the double line on Peel Street. That meeting had been unable to come to a decision on this matter. After some discussion the General Works Committee resolved unanimously the proposals of the Tramway Company be accepted and the two passing loops could be connected to form a double line. A long letter from the Secretary of the Tramway Company was read out, about the manner in which the tracks were being laid down in Peel Street. A discussion took place at which the Chairman of the Tramway Company was present, and he was requested to convey the views of the Committee back to his Directors. December (A second letter was received from the Secretary of the Accrington Corporation Steam Tramway Company which read as follows.) December 12 th , 1893. Dear Sir, On Saturday last and again yesterday morning I inspected as far as is practical the work now going on in connection with our lines on Peel Street. I was instructed to draw your attention to the manner in which these alterations were being carried out. Most of your Corporation will have been aware of the most unsatisfactory way in which these foundations were made in the first instance, and to some extent the extraordinary amount which has, and still is, being spent annually in the repair and relaying consequent upon to a great measure because those foundations were so poorly constructed. The experience of my Directors resulting from such condition of affairs has been very expensive, and this Company for some considerable time past, has seen that all alterations or relaying done by them, should be carried out in such a manner as would reduce future repairs and reflect credit upon my Company. That being so my Directors have made a personal examination of the lines on Peel Street, and they find that the lines laid down now are on a foundation constructed in a different manner to that which our experience has led them to believe in all their own work to adopt. The difference has been that instead of taking up the old foundations and reconstructing a new one, and then bedding the new rails upon the new concrete, or placing the rails in position upon the new concrete and then packing with the new concrete up to the To A.H. AITKEN (Town Clerk), ACCRINGTON.

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