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An Act to enable the London and South-western Railway Company to make Railways from Andover to join their Salisbury Branch Railway at Michaelmarsh, and from the same Branch at Romsey to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway at Redbridge, all in the County of Southampton, to be called "The Andover and Southampton Junction Railway."
The act continued legislative approval of the broad-gauge railways constructed by the Great Western Railway engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and endorsed the construction of several new broad-gauge lines, but restricted them to the south-west of England and to Wales. The act stated that these railways "shall be constructed on the Gauge of Seven ...
An Act for consolidating the Lynn and Ely, the Ely and Huntingdon, and the Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies into One Company, to be called "The East Anglian Railways Company." Citation: 10 & 11 Vict. c. cclxxv: Dates; Royal assent: 22 July 1847: Other legislation; Repealed by: Great Eastern Railway Act 1862
Originally every railway, tramway and canal had its own act of Parliament, but eventually most of the common clauses were extracted into General Railways Acts, leaving each company's individual act to deal with exceptions to the general rules only.
May 24 – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities. [3] May 31 – The first railway connection between Rotterdam and The Hague opens in the ...
An Act for making a Junction Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway at Stratford in the County of Essex to the River Thames, with a Branch Railway therefrom; and for constructing a Pier in the River Thames. (Repealed by Great Eastern Railway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii))
An Act to amend and enlarge some of the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Eastern Counties Railway, and to authorize the Company to raise a further Sum of Money for the Purposes of the said Undertaking. (Repealed by Great Eastern Railway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. ccxxiii))
An Act for making a Railway from the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield to join the Birmingham and Derby Line of the Midland Railways, with a Branch to Stoke-upon-Trent. (Repealed by North Staffordshire Railway Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. cviii))