(BRUNEL, I.K.) An address from the directors of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway Company to the shareholders. [With] Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway. Schedule of claim to be filled in by occupiers. Cirencester, 1836
2 items. 8vo. pamphlet, 22pp. Stitched as issued, small tear on final blank leaf ; folding schedule. Ottley No.6015. The C&GWU was projected as early as 1833, just after the issue of the GWR prospectus, to link Cheltenham via Gloucester and Stroud with the GWR near Swindon. It was surveyed by Brunel and a bill was deposited in 1836. However, the London & Birmingham opposed it, putting forward an alternative scheme for a line between Tring and Cheltenham. The present pamphlet was circulated by the directors of the C&GWU to reassurre their nervous shareholders confused by the conflicting claims of the two schemes, even though their own act had been passed in June 1836, successfully defeating the opposition, and Brunel was just about to set out the line. It includes a comparison of the main civil engineering features of the two schemes with some extracts from the parliamentary evidence. Included here is a schedule of claim for landowners or occupiers to obtain compensation for their property.
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