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

[excepting iron], nails, anvils, vices and chains, and for ‘light metal’ castings, not to exceed 5 pence per ton. For all cotton and wools, drugs, manufactured goods and all other wares or merchandise, fish, not to exceed 6 pence per ton mile, and for carriage of all other descriptions of goods not to exceed 1 shilling per ton mile. 16.For any parcel not exceeding 7 lbs. in weight - 3 pence per mile. For any parcel exceeding 7 lbs. in weight but not exceeding 14 lbs. - 5 pence. For any parcel exceeding 14 lbs. in weight but not exceeding 28 lbs. - 7 pence. For any parcel exceeding 28 lbs. in weight but not exceeding 56 lbs. - 9 pence. For any parcel exceeding 56 lbs. in weight but not exceeding 500 lbs. - any negotiable sum. 17.Stated that the servants and employees of the Corporation should be allowed to travel without charge at the discretion of the Corporation. 18.Any tolls and charges shall be paid to the Company at such places, and to such persons authorised by the Company. 19.The Company shall provide cheap and discounted fares for the ‘labouring classes’, and shall run cars not later than 7 am, or earlier than 6 pm in the evening every day of the week [excluding Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Fridays excepted], as the Company thinks most convenient for the artisans, mechanics and labourers. These fares not to exceed one halfpenny (½d) per mile or any part thereof. The Lessees shall be subject to fines proscribed by the Corporation for failing to provide these cars. 20.Required the Lessees and, or the Corporation, to give 2 months’ notice to any Authority of their intentions to extend the operation of the Tramway into their territories. 21.Gave the Corporation powers to have removed any horse, carriage or engine, when it is certified by the appropriate officer to be unfit for use. 22.The Corporation shall have further powers to raise extra capital by borrowing at interest on security of the Borough Fund, and of the other rates and revenues of the Corporation, for the purposes of the Tramway and Works authorised by this Act, not exceeding £45,000. All monies borrowed by the Corporation under this Act, shall be repaid within a period of not exceeding sixty years, by whatever funds and/or in yearly instalments. 23.The Corporation shall keep accounts of all the revenues, rents and receipts separately from all their other accounts, and apply such monies properly applicable on capital accounts as follows - in repayment of interest on borrowed money. In payment of expenses (if any), properly charged against revenue. That every year the Corporation shall set aside by means of a Sinking Fund sufficient monies to pay off the monies owed by them in instalments over the sixty-year period. 24.This Clause was specifically designed for the protection of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company, its bridges, lines and other infrastructure. Specifically the bridge over Whalley Road between Castle Street and Milnshaw Lane, and the one over Blackburn Road adjacent to the Crown public house. 25.There was a Clause for the protection of the interests of the Local Board of Clayton-le Moors, and the purchase of land and also a Clause for the protection of the interests of the Local Board of Church and the purchase of lands. 26.States that the Corporation and any Road Authority shall from time to time enter into agreements and contracts, with relation to the laying down, renewing, repairing and using the Tramways within their districts and of all works connected therein. 27.Gave the Corporation authority to sell off any portions of the Tramway which did not lie within the Borough of Accrington, at a sum to be mutually agreed, or settled by an arbitrator in the case of a dispute, this referee to be appointed by the Local Government Board. 28. Set the gauge at 4 feet, and provided for an end-on junction with the Tramway authorised by the Blackburn Improvement Act of 1882 at the terminus of the aforementioned

Tramway, so as to permit the interchanging of traffic without a change of car. The Rolling Stock specifications as laid down by the Board of Trade were as follows –

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