Central London Railways (CLR) Board Minute Book 1

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 25 April 1900. Engineers report number 40 (report recorded). Opening of line. Experimental train. Coal supply. Financial statements. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Formal Meeting held 4 February 1897 [and Board Meeting held 12 January 1897]. Engineers report number 13 (report recorded). Central London Bill 1897: petitions against. Division of shares. Death of J H Greathead: letters of condolence and Mrs Greathead’s response (letters recorded). Documents sealed. Financial statements. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Carriages: specifications and drawings. Davies Street Station.

Minutes, report and letter. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 21 February 1900. Engineers report number 37 (report recorded). Coal supply. Advertising and book stalls at stations: tenders received, Willing and Company (letter recorded). Automatic machines at stations. Shoeblack chairs at stations. Central London Bill 1900. Shepherds Bush Depot: overhead working. Secretary’s salary. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 17 May 1900. Engineers report number 41 (report recorded). Shepherds Bush Depot: overhead working; tender from Blackwell and Company. Financial statements. Train passes, complimentary tickets and ticket arrangements with other railway companies. Central London Bill 1900. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 20 March 1895. Appointment of Chairman of the Company: Mr Henry Tennant. Agreement with Electric Traction Company. Deposited plans and drawings. Seal of Company: to be affixed in the presence of one Director and of the Secretary. Appointment of bankers: Messrs Glyn Mills Currie and Company. Custody of seal keys. Appointment of Engineers: Sir John Fowler KCMG, Sir Benjamin Baker KCMG and J H Greathead. Agreement between Engineers and the Company. Appointment of Solicitors: Messrs Bircham and Company. Letters were read from Mr Graham and Mr Waddington the Accountant of the North Eastern Railway. Appointment of Secretary: Mr Richard Oliver Graham. Prospectus. Mr Matesdorf to remain Secretary for time being. Offices of the Company.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 24 May 1898. Engineers report number 21 (report recorded). Single staircases to be substituted for double interspiral staircases at stations. Carriages: classes required. Allotment of shares to the Electric Traction Company. Payment of interest. Financial statements. Date for future meetings: half yearly and Board meetings. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Special Board Meeting held 18 October 1899. Engineers report number 34 [should be 33] (report recorded). British Thomson-Houston: draft agreement. Financial statements. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Appointment of General Manager: Granville Cuningham [Cunningham].

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 12 November 1896. Engineers report number 12 (report recorded). Great Eastern and North London Companies: termination of negotiations on draft agreements. Central London Bill 1897. Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway proposed name change. Half yearly accounts. Dates for future meetings: half yearly meeting. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 5 May 1897. Davies Street Station. Carriages: Reduction in price and numbers. Central London Bill 1897: withdrawal of London County Council’s betterment clause. Carriages: drawings and specifications. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

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Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 18 July 1898. Engineers report number 23 (report recorded). Application to Parliament in session 1899 for extension of one year to construct railway and other powers. Financial statements. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held on 6 July 1895. Investment of surplus funds. Allotment of shares. Financial arrangements for payments to Electric Traction Company. Notices to treat. License from Mr Greathead to Traction Company for patent usage. Applications for returns of overpayments for shares. Allotment of shares; applications withdrawn. Outstanding calls. Draft lease of offices. Mansion House subways.

Minutes, reports and letter. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 17 July 1900. Publication of weekly traffic figures and receipts. Opening of line: Board of Trade certificate (letter recorded). Inspection report by Lieutenant Colonel Yorke detailing state of CLR tunnels, gauge, permanent way, stations, platforms, lifts, tiling, signalling, cars, locomotives and speed (report recorded). Electrical safety inspection report by Alex Potter covering CLR electrical equipment, supply of current, lifts, mains cables, locomotives and generating plant (report recorded). General Manager’s report: opening of line, frequency of trains, number of passengers, traffic receipts, lift capacity at Shepherds Bush, spare locomotives, supply of coal (report recorded). Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Reason for special meeting: serious delays. Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 4 October 1899. Engineers report (special [no number]): serious delays impacting probable date of completion (report recorded). British Thomson-Houston: agreement for working the line at a rate per train mile. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Hampstead, St. Pancras and Charing Cross Railway Bill: petition against the bill.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 8 October 1896. Engineers report number 11 (report recorded). Documents sealed. Parliamentary powers application for substitution of the Davies Street site. Financial statements. Station plans: Post Office Station (Newgate Street) (letter recorded). Extension to Paddington: no action on agreement with Great Western Railway. Action against CLR by Mrs Rickards (letter recorded). Marble Arch Station super-structure. Manhattan Railway report: payment to Mr Bain. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 27 April 1898. Engineers report number 20 (report recorded). Buildings over stations. Head offices of CLR. Financial arrangements for payments to Electric Traction Company (ETC). Financial statements. Surplus money to remain on deposit. Allotment of shares to the ETC. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Re-election of chairman: Sir Henry Oakley. Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 7 February 1900. Financial statements. Central London Bill 1900: MPs to back. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Documents sealed.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Royal Assent to the Central London Railway Act 1891. Appointment of Chairman of the Board of Directors: Mr Francis Alfred Lucas. Trial borings: engineers to carry out with limit of £800 in costs.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 28 February 1899. Engineers report number 28 (report recorded). Opening of line: provisional date. Central London Bill 1899. Waterloo & City Railway: low level connection (letters recorded). Outstanding calls. Financial statements. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 14 June 1899. Half yearly report and accounts. Central London Bill 1899: workmen’s trains and fares. Potential damage caused by CLR construction work at Bank of England and Smith Payne and Smiths Bank (letters recorded). Financial arrangements for payments to Electric Traction Company. Calls to shareholders. Payment of interest. Appointment of traffic superintendent: selection of candidates. Dates for future meetings: half yearly meeting. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 28 May1897. Engineers report number 15 (report recorded). Financial statements. Date for future meetings: half yearly meeting. Interest warrants. Outstanding call. Carriages: classes required. Rates and taxes payable during construction. Power to use capital for building purposes at station sites: counsel’s opinion sought. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes, report and letter. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 19 April 1899. Engineers report number 30 (report recorded). Progress at Bank Station. Progress with station buildings: ironworks (letter recorded). Central London Bill 1899: petitions in the House of Lords: workmen’s trains and fares, widening of Davies Street. Financial statements. Outstanding calls. Station names: change of name of Davies Street Station. British Thomson-Houston: draft agreement. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include; Appointment of Chairman: Sir Henry Oakley. Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 17 January 1899. Financial statements. Financial arrangements with the Electric Traction Company (letters recorded). Outstanding calls. Extension to Acton: proposal from Urban District Council of Acton (letter recorded). Traffic superintendent. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed. Bills in Parliament 1899 affecting the CLR: report (report recorded), CLR to lodge petitions.

Minutes and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held on 6 August 1891. Appointment of secretary: Mr T Matesdorf. Authority to seal documents. Custody of seal keys. Crown Agreement: with Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods. Bills in Parliament1892: arrangement with Bank of Scotland for deposit. Requisition of warrant. Dates for future meetings: first Ordinary General Meeting, Wharncliffe meeting. Central London Bill 1890: expenses (letters recorded).

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held on 13 February 1896. Engineers report number 4 (report recorded). Financial arrangements for payments to Electric Traction Company. Mansion House subways deposit: agreement with Commissioners of Sewers. Financial statements. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 2 August 1899. Engineers report number 32 (report recorded). Impact of steelwork delays on progress at stations. Financial statements. Loans made by CLR. Placing of National Telephone Company cables in CLR tunnels (letters recorded). Balance of deposit with City commissioners: fall in value of consols (government securities). Davies Street Station: letter from Duke of Westminster Estates’ solicitors agreeing to elevation (letter recorded). Appointment of traffic superintendent: Charles Aldington started work. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed.

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 3 October 1900. General Manager’s report: passenger numbers and traffic receipts; accidents and claims: death of conductor; construction expenditure (report recorded). Locomotives. Lighting in tunnels. Financial statements. Railway maintenance. Extension to Liverpool Street and loops at Shepherds Bush. [note minutes of this meeting continue in ACC/1297/CLR/01/002/001]

Minutes and report. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held on 14 July 1896. Engineers report number 10 (report recorded). Great Eastern Company: draft agreement. North London Company: draft agreement. Davies Street Station: alternative site. Extension to Acton: rejected. Financial statements. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes, report and letters. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held on 17 July 1895. Engineers report number 1 (report recorded). Deputation to London County Council and Commissioners of Sewers. Electric Traction Company: acquisitions of sites (letter recorded). Signature of contracts for property acquisition. Loan to Nelke Phillips and Bendix. Application for shares (letter recorded). Allotment of shares, including subsequent withdrawal. Lease of Company’s offices. Financial statements. Accounts for payment.

Minutes, report and letter. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 15 June 1898. Engineers report number 22 (report recorded). Subway between City & South London Railway and CLR at Bank (letter recorded). Allotment of shares to the Electric Traction Company. Issue of debenture stock. Financial statements. Interest warrants. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment. Documents sealed. Date for future meetings: Board meeting.

Minutes, reports and letter. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 16 July 1897 [and Special Meeting held 4 August 1897]. Engineers report number 16 (report recorded). Buildings over stations: architect’s report. Working of Railway by British Thomson-Houston Company. Rates and taxes payable during construction: view of Electric Traction Company (ETC) (letter recorded). Financial arrangements for payments to ETC: unallotted shares. Outstanding call. Financial statements. Documents sealed. Cheques drawn and payments agreed. Accounts for payment.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Secretary’s remuneration: £500 to Mr Matesdorf on flotation.

Minutes only. Subjects include: Minutes of CLR Board Meeting held 12 May 1893. Extension of Time Bill: engrossment of petition.