1932 Lots Road Power House Joint Committee
Note: This is a sub-section of 1932 Railway Year Book and Lots Road Power House Joint Committee
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MEMBERS.
MURRAY GRIFFITH.
HENRY A. VERNET.
RIGHT HON. LORD FARRER.
FIELD-MARSH AL SIR WILLIAM R. ROBERTSON, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.C.M.G., D.S.O.
Secretary— JOHN C. MITCHELL, J.P., F.C.I.S.
Under the powers of the Metropolitan District Railway Act, 1911, a Joint Committee was formed by the Metropolitan District and London Electric Railway Companies, and the Act empowered this Committee to acquire from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Limited, the Lots Road Generating Station undertaking, which generates the electrical energy used for working the two Companies, and to lease it to those Companies for 999 years.
The following table sets forth the various undertakings allied within the general undertaking of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Limited, which are supplied with electric energy from the Electric Generating Station at Chelsea, which was opened February 1st, 1905.
- Metropolitan District Railway
- City Lines and Extensions (Joint Metropolitan District and Metropolitan).
- Whitechapel and Bow Railway (Joint Metropolitan District and L. M. & S. Rys.)
- London United Tramways
- London Electric Railway Co
- Central London Railway
- City and South London Railway
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