APH
By J.G. Conroy
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. (From 1888 to 1906)
The committee decided in favour of the amalgamation of the Great Southern and Western and the Waterford, Limerick and Western Companies, granting the Midland Great Western Railway Company a absolute running powers between Athenry and Limerick, with power to carry local passenger traffic – the terms for which were to be settled by arbitration.
Page 66
The amalgamation of Irish Railways might be of great advantage but the Irish companies seemed quite capable of carrying out the principle of amalgamation successfully. The Midland Great Western Railway obtained control of over 445 miles of line due to the amalgamation.
Page 91 – From 1866 to 1888
The Midland Great Western Company purchased a branch line between Kilfree and Ballaghadereen about nine miles.
Page 230 – Period of Government Control
The award of the Tribunal to be as follows on October 4th, 1922:
- The sum of £2,500,000 shall be allocated as follows amongst the seven companies constituting Group 1: Name of Company; Midland Great Western Go.
Amount; £567,606
Percentage 14,704
- The interest applicable to the sum paid of £2,500,000 shall be allocated in the same proportion as in 1.
- From the totals of 1. and 2. there shall be deducted the following payments already made on account of principal and interest: Midland Great Western : £186,556.14s.7d.
- The cost of the Tribunal amounting to £5,000 shall be paid as follows:
Railway; Midland Great Western
Proportion of % ; 14.704
Amount; £441
Page 40
In 1854 the sum of which interest was chargeable in connection with the Midland Great Western extension from Athlone to Galway was fixed at £470,000.
Page 40
The Railways Act, 1851, was an extension of the principle embodied in the Act passed in 1849 to facilitate the construction of the Midland Great Western Railway,
Page 142
The Irish railways were set up as a body in Railway Rates and Charges No 26 (Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway, etc.), Order Confirmation Act, 1892. This Act achieved two objects. It introduced a new and uniform classification all over the United Kingdom, and it introduced a new series of maximum rates and charges of goods and cattle. This Act was to reduce chaos to order.
Page 157
No reference was made to terminals as such in the Hallway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, but the Provisional Orders, which were introduced as the result of this Act, contained new terminal charges. These came into operation in Ireland with the Railway Rates and Charges No 26 (Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway, etc) Order Confirmation Act, 1892.
Page 259
When the extension from Athlone to Galway was being constructed the Midland Great Western Railway Company got a guarantee of five per cent interest on the necessary capital from the baronies through which the line passed. The baronies were relieved of their liability by an Act passed in 1865, which was to come into force in 1870.
Page 288
When the amalgamation of the Great Southern and Western Railways took place in 1900, three light railways, which had guarantees under the Tramways and Public Companies Act of 1883, were affected by it. One of these, The Athenry and Tuam Extension, was being worked by the Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway Company under an agreement for an unexpired period of twenty years.
Page 555
The Great Southern Railways Absorption Scheme, 1925, for The Athenry and Tuam Extension to Claremorris Railway Company Limited.
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Time extended to July 51st, 1868 by a Treasury letter of October 31st, 1867.
Athenry and Tuam:
Total Advances – 30,000
Date of Security; November 7th, 1866
Period for which the loan was made; 1 year
Rate of Interest; 5%
Page: 57
The Midland Great Western Railway Company derived their powers to levy tolls and fares on the line from Dublin to Galway and on to Sligo and Clara branches from 11 different Acts of Parliament. There was no uniformity of charges for passengers.
