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An Act for enabling the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company to make an Alteration in the Line of the said Railway, and for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating thereto. Citation: 10 Geo. 4. c. xxxv: Dates; Royal assent: 14 May 1829: Other legislation; Repealed by: Grand Junction Railway Act 1845
The history of rail transport in Great Britain 1830–1922 covers the period between the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), and the Grouping, the amalgamation of almost all of Britain's many railway companies into the Big Four by the Railways Act 1921. The inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, by A.B ...
An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. (Repealed by Grand Junction Railway Act 1845 (c.cxcviii)) Hyde, Werneth and Newton Water Act 1831
As a result, they needed an act of Parliament to build, to enforce the sale of way-leave by landowners. The acts also protected investors from unrealistic, or downright fraudulent, schemes. The first line to obtain such an act, the Middleton Railway Act 1757 (31 Geo. 2 c. 22 Pr.), was a private coal-owner's wagonway, the Middleton Railway in ...
The Warrington and Newton Railway in 1831. On 15 September 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened for business. [1] Although this was a purely west to east line, primarily connecting the manufactories of Manchester with the great docks of Liverpool, there were already thoughts of forming a British railway network.
George Stephenson, engineer of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) was founded on 24 May 1823 by Liverpool merchants Joseph Sandars and Henry Booth, [1] [failed verification] [note 1] [note 2] with the aim of linking the textile mills of Manchester to the nearest deep water port at the Port of Liverpool.
The shareholders then sought a bill for a railway from Bolton to Manchester and on 23 August 1831 obtained an act of Parliament, the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal and Railway Act 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4. c. lx) to become the "Company of Proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway Company".
Liverpool & Manchester Railway operations, 1831-1845. David and Charles. p. 20. ISBN 0715357050. Warren, J.G.H. (1970) [1923]. A Century of Locomotive Building. David & Charles. pp. 155– 158. ISBN 0715343785. Shaw, Isaac (1830). "View on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Locomotive "Twin Sisters" in a Siding" (watercolour). Yale ...