| Description | Includes: supplemental agreement regarding the Woodside Branch Railway between Lord Ward and others and the Oxford, Wolverhampton & Worcester Railway, with plan [tracing] [4 Sep 1854]; minutes of meeting at Woodside Ironworks respecting a proposed deviation of the Woodside Branch of the Pensnett Railway, with copy [8 Jun 1854]; minutes of meeting regarding Woodside agreement [23 Aug 1854]; plan [tracing] of proposed siding with Hill & Smith's work shops [1859]; notes by W.J. on the Woodside Branch of the Great Western Railway, Round Oak [18 Dec 1876]; minutes of meeting at Round Oak concerning the Great Western Railway Woodside Branch tolls, etc. [12 Jan 1877]; note on Woodside Branch tonnages [31 Jan 1877]; plans [tracings] of the Woodside Branch no.3111 b [1877]; statement of traffic over Woodside Branch [31 Jan 1878]; copy case for the opinion of counsel (Great Western Railway Woodside Branch) [Dec 1878]; account for tonnage on Woodside Branch railway [31 Dec 1879]; and plan [tracing] of Great Western Railway Woodside Branch plan no. 3158 [Sep 1880]. Memorandum notes that: 'Mr Saltwell is somewhat at sea & we may admit that we are in the boat with him' [9 Nov 1876].
Correspondents include: Bidford & Pidcock; Richard Smith; John Whitton (Oxford, Wolverhampton & Worcester Railway); H. M. Wainwright; Noel Thomas Smith (Oxford, Wolverhampton & Worcester Railway); W. T. Adcock (West Midland Railway); William Mason; Thomas Laughton; Edward Wilson (Oxford, Wolverhampton & Worcester Railway); Frederick Smith; A. Sherriff; Thomas Hibbert; Benbow, Tucker & Co./Benbow & Saltwell; Alfred Bill; George Taylor; Cochrane & Co.; J. W. Andrews (G.W.R); Messrs Garratt & Son (Parkhead Colliery); Edward Fisher Smith; J. Ward Armstrong (Great Western Railway); William Mills (Great Western Railway); John Dudley; and J. Grierson (Great Western Railway).
Bundle cover endorsed: 'Great Western Woodside Branch - Completed - Special'
See notes by W.J. on the Woodside Branch of the Great Western Railway, Round Oak [18 Dec 1876] for overview of situation. |