Regent's Canal, City and Docks Railway
1882 Incorporated to build a line from Paddington to the Royal Albert Dock
1882 The Act of Parliament for this project was hotly contested but eventually gained approval. It was intended to follow the banks of the Regent's Canal all the way from Paddington as far as Victoria Park, where it continued beside the Hertford Union Canal to Old Ford, then across the levels of West Ham to Victoria Docks. A number of stations were to be located along the line.
1889 Engineer is Edwin Thomas.[1]
1892 The directors altered the title to North Metropolitan Railway and Canal Company.
1896 The authorised extension of the City and South London Railway from King William street to Islington would take up the Angel and Barbican spur of the line; authorised in 1892, work on this was due to begin in 1896.[2]
By 1896 some of the compulsory purchase powers granted to the company were due to lapse. [3]