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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1847.. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800 were either parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland).
The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.. Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845, the railway was enabled by the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Act 1847 as the South Yorkshire Doncaster and Goole Railway Company which incorporated into it the permitted line of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley ...
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 c. cclxxv: Dates; Royal assent: 22 July 1847: Other legislation; Repealed by: Great Eastern Railway Act 1862
The GNER had also been given permission for three more branches in 1846; a branch from Pilmoor to Boroughbridge, authorised by the Great North of England and Boroughbridge Branch Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. xcv), opened on 17 June 1847 and one from Northallerton to Bedale, authorised by the Great North of England and Bedale Branch Railway ...
The L&YR was incorporated in 1847 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Act (No. 3) 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. clxiii), being an amalgamation of several important lines, the chief of which was the Manchester and Leeds Railway (itself having been incorporated in 1836).
The act also allowed for the LO&PR to be leased or sold to the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) and this happened in October 1846. [act 5] [13] The Manchester and Leeds Railway amalgamated with others to become the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 9 July 1847, under the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. clxiii). [act 6 ...
Final agreement for this was accomplished on 6 October, ratified by an act of Parliament, the South Staffordshire Railway Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. clxxxix), of 9 July 1847. The 1847 act also confirmed a change of name for the combined company, which was to be called the South Staffordshire Railway; the combined share capital was fixed at £ ...
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 ...