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Railroads and Tramways

These Acts of Parliament relate to the railroads and tramways of Britain, and to the construction, repair and maintenance thereof. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends ; from George III on they are by date of passage . Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green.

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.28]. ... to facilitate the Disolution of certain Railway Companies. $25

• [Anno 12&13, Cap.88*]. ... to amend and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of the Acts relating to the Ardrossan Harbour, and to the Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway. (Edgeworn) $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.64]. ... to repeal the Act for constituting Commissioners of Railways. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.31]. ... for the better Regulation of the Traffic on Railways and Canals. (Pencilled underlining.) $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.124]. ... to settle the Contribution to be made by certain Baronies in Roscommon and Galway and the County and Town of Galway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland. $18

• [Anno 20&21, Cap.99*]. ... to enable the Newport, Abergavenny, and Herefore Railway Company to extend their Railway into the Aberdare and Bargoed Valleys in Glamorganshire ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 22&23, Cap.12*]. ... for the Completion of the Gateshead Quay in the Borough of Gateshead, and for authorizing Arrangements with the North-eastern Railway Company with respect to the User of Parts thereof ... (Dusty and edgewworn.) $8
• [Anno 22&23, Cap.17*]. ... to enable the Worcester and Hereford Railway Company to make a Branch Railway to the Severn at Hereford, and to enlarge their Station at Hereford ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 26&27, Cap.124*]. ... to enable the Devon Valley Railway Company to create Preference Shares; to reduce the Capital of the Company ... $20
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 28&29, Cap.318*]. ... for making Railways in Wiltshire from the London and South-western Railway to the Berks and Hants Railway at Pewsey and Woodborough ... $20
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 29&30, Cap.171*]. ... to authorize the North British Railway Company to make a Railway between Two several Points in their Main Line in the Parish of South Leith; .... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 30&31, Cap.104]. ... to amend and extend as to Railways in Ireland the Provisions of an Act ... to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways ... $18

• [Anno 32&33, Cap.40*]. ... to authorize the King's Lynn Docks and Railway Company to connect ... with the Railways at King's Lynn, to change the name of the company ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 33&34, Cap.54*]. ... to authorize ... the Clyde Navigation to construct a Dock or Tidal Basin, Quays, Tramways, and other works at the Harbour of Glasgow; to abandon certain works, and to borrow additional money ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 34&35, Cap.70*]. ... to revive and extend the powers granted by "The Fleetwood Docks Act, 1864," and to enable the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to exercise those powers ... (Marginal chips.) $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 34&35, Cap.142*]. ... to authorize the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company to construct Docks at Portishead, and to amend and enlarge the existing Acts relating to the Company; ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 35&36, Cap.131*]. ... to enable the Tyne Improvement Commissioners to construct a Dock at or near the Coble Dene, with River Walls, Railways, and Other Works; to consolidate, alter, and define the application of ... Funds ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 38&39, Cap.167*]. ... for confirming Provisional Orders ... under The Tramways Act, 1870, relating to the Bristol and Eastern District Tramways and the Manchester Corporation Tramways. (Soiled/dusty.) $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 40&41, Cap.1*]. ... for extending the time for the completion of the Coleford Railway ... (Edgeworn.) $5
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 41&42, Cap.208*]. ... for empowering the Great Western Railway Company to make new Railways, Roads, and other Works; ... to abandon the construction of certain authorized Railways; for vesting in the ... [GWR] and the Severn Navigation Commissioners the undertakings of the Gloucester and Worcester Horse Towing-path Company and the River Severn Horse Towing-path Extension Company; ... in the ...[GWR] and the Stratford-upon Avon Railway Company the undertaking of the Alcester Railway Company; ... for empowering the ... [GWR] to subscribe towards the capitol and debenture of the Worcester, Bromyard, and Leominster, the Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Junction, the Malmesbury, and the Llynvi and Ogmore Railway Companies ... $25
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 44&45, Cap.186*]. ... for incorporating a Company and authorising them to make and maintain a Dock Railway and other works at Annan ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 45&46, Cap.195*]. ... for granting further powers to the Swindon Marlborough and Andover Railway Company ... $15
• [Anno 45&46, Cap.215*]. ... for conferring further powers on the Whitland Cronware and Pendine Railway Company ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 46&47, Cap.60*]. ... to extend the municipal boundary ... of Aberdeen; to authorize the Town Council to make new streets, execute certain street improvements, and construct a connecting railway to the Glassworks ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 46&47, Cap.120*]. ... to confer further powers on the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway Company ... $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 47&48, Cap.231*]. ... for vesting in the Plymouth Devonport and Southwestern Railway Company the powers conferred by the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Act 1882 and for the abandonment of a portion of the Railway ... and for the disolution of the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 50, Cap.46*]. ... to confer further powers on the Midland and Southwestern Junction Railway Company ... (Edgewear.) $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 50&51, Cap.*196]. ... to confirm certain Provisional Orders ... under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Birmingham Central Tramways (Extension), Bristol Tramways, Burnley and District Tramways, [etc.] ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 54&55, Cap.131*]. ... to revive the Powers and extend the Time for the compulsory purchase of Lands for and for and for the completion of the Railways and Pier authorized by the Swindon Marlborough and Andover Railway Acts 1882 and 1883 and the South Hampshire Railway and Pier Acts 1886 and 1889. $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 55&56, Cap.164*]. ... to revive and extend the time for completing and opening the Lambourn Valley Railway ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 60&61, Cap.128*]. ... to empower the Midland and Southwestern Junction Railway Company to convert and consolidate their debenture stocks ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 62&63, Cap.178*]. ... to confer further powers on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway Company ... to acquire the undertaking of the Marlborough and Grafton Railway Company ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

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