Chester and Crewe Railway Act 1840

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Citation1840 c. xlix
ANNO TERTIO
VICTORLE REGIN.E.
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Cap.
xlix.
An Act for incorporating the Chester and Crewe
Railway with the Grand Junction Railway, and
for extending to the said first-mentioned Railway
the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament
relating to the said last-mentioned Railway; and
for other Purposes. [19th May 1840.]
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, inti-
tuled An Act for making a Railway from the Warrington
3 &
4
W.
4.
and Newton Railway at Warrington in the County of Lancaster to Bir- c.34.
mingham in the County 0/" Warwick, to be called the Grand Junction
Railway : And whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth Year
of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the
4?& 5
W.4.
Grand Junction Railway Company to alter and extend the Line qfc-55.
such Railway, and to make a Branch therefrom to Wolverhampton in
the County of Stafford, and for other Purposes relating thereto : And
whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of
His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the Grand Junction 5
& 6
W.
4%
Railway Company to alter the Line of such Railway, and to make c- 9*
Two Branches therefrom in the County of Stafford, and for other
Purposes relating thereto: And whereas another Act was passed in
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938
5&6W.4.
c. 8.
7 W. 4. &
1 Vict, c.63
1 & 2 Vict.
c. 59.
7 W. 4. &
1 Vict. c. 63.
repealed.
Chester and
Crewe Rail-
way Com-
pany incor-
porated with
the Grand
Junction
Railway
Company.
3°VICTORL£,
Cap.xMx..
the said Fifth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, intituled An
Act for incorporating the Warrington and Newton Railway with tht
Grand Junction Railway', and for extending to the said first-mentioned
Railway the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament relating to
the
said
last^-mentioned
Railway, and for other Purposes relating thereto:
And whereas another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign
of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for making a Railway from
the City of Chester to join the Grand Junction Railway near Crewe
Hall in the County of Chester, to be called the Chester and Crewe
Railway: And whereas another Act was passed in the First and
Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act
to alter,
amend,
extend,
and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of
the
several Acts relating to the Grand Junction Railway, and for other
Purposes connected therewith: And whereas the Line of the said Grand
Junction Railway from Newton to Birmingham is now open to the
Public, and the Line of the said Chester and Crewe Railway and
the Works connected therewith are in course of due Execution:
And whereas it is expedient that the said Grand Junction Railway
and the. said Chester and Crewe Railway should be united and form
one common Concern and Undertaking, and be under and subject to
one common Control and System of Management, and that the
Powers and Provisions of the said Act relating to the said Chester
and Crewe Railway should be repealed, and that Provisions should
be made in relation to the Matters aforesaid and concerning the said
Two Companies: And whereas the Union of the said Railways and
other the Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Aid and
Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that
it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the Authority of the same, That upon and as from the First
Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty the said recited
Act of the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty relating
to the said Chester and Crewe Railway shall be and the same is
hereby repealed.
II.
And be it further enacted, That the Undertaking of the said
Chester and Crewe Railway shall, from and after the said First Day
of July One thousand eight hundred and forty, be incorporated with
and form Part of the Undertaking of the Grand Junction Railway,
and all the Works of the Chester and Crewe Railway Company, and
all their Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Shares, Profits, and
Rights, and all the Real and Personal Property of the said Company*
shall, from and after the said First Day of July One thousand eight
hundred and forty, vest in and become the Property of the Grand
Junction Railway Company, and shall and may be entered upon and
taken, received, and recovered by the Grand Junction Railway Com-
pany accordingly.
III.
And be it further enacted, That from and after the said First
Grand Junc-
tion Railway Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty the said several
Acts ex- •/.._.-
tended to
the Chester
recited Acts of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Years of the Reign of
His said late Majesty, and of the First and Second Years of the
Reign

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