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11 & 12 GEO. 5. Ch. 55.
London, 1921. 90pp
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An Act to provide for the reorganisation and further regulation of Railways and the discharge of liabilities arising in connection with the possession of Railways, and otherwise to amend the Law relating to Railways, and to extend the duration of the Rates Advisory Committee. [19th August 1921.] PART I. REORGANISATION of RAILWAY SYSTEM. 1.---(1) With a view to the reorganisation and more efficient and economical working of the railway system of Great Britain railways shall be formed into groups in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the principal railway companies in each group shall be amalgamated, and other companies absorbed in manner provided by this Act. (2) The groups to be formed shall be those specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act, and as respects the several groups the railway companies to be amalgamated (in this Act referred to as 'constituent companies') shall be those set out in relation to each group in the second column of that schedule, and the companies to be absorbed (in this Act referred to as 'subsidiary companies') shall be those set out in relation to each group in the third column of that schedule, and the companies constituted by such amalgamation are in this Act referred to as amalgamated companies. 1. The Southern Group. 1. The London and South Western Railway Company; the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company; the South Eastern Railway Company; the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company; the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Managing Committee. 1. The Bridgwater Railway Company, the Brighton anti Dyke Railway Company; the Freshwater Yarmouth and Newport (Isle of Wight) Rail- way Company; the Hayling Railways Company; the Isle of Wight Railway Company; the Isle of Wight Central Railway Company; the Lee-on-the-Solent Railway Company; the London and Greenwich Railway Company; the Mid Kent Railway (Bromley to St. Mary Cray) Company; the North Cornwall Railway Company; the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company; the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway Company; the Sidmouth Railway Company; the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway Company. 2. The Western Group. 2. The Great Western Railway Company; the Barry Railway Company; the Cambrian Railway Company; the Cardiff Railway Company; the Rhymney Railway company; the Taff Vale Railway Company; and the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company. 2. The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction. Railway Company; the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway Company; the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway Company; the Didcot Newbury and Southampton Railway Company; the Exeter Railway Company; the Forest of Dean Central Railway Company; the Gwendreath Valleys Railway Company; the Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway Company; the Liskeard and Looe Railway Company; the Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Company; the Mawddy Railway Company; the Midland and South Western Junction Railway, Com parry; the Neath and Brecon Railway Company; the Penarth Extension Railway Company; the Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway Company; the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company; the Princetown Railway Company; the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company; the Ross and Monmouth Railway Company,; the South Wales Mineral Railway Company; the Teign Valley Railway Company; the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company; the Van Railway Company; the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Company; the West Somerset Railway Company; the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway Company. 3. The North Western, Midland, and West Scottish Group. 3. The London and North Western Railway Company; the Midland Railway Company; the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company; the North Staffordshire Railway Company; the Furness Railway Company; the Caledonian Railway Company; the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company the Highland Railway Company. 3. The Arbroath and Forfar Railway Company; the Brechin and Edzell District Railway Company; the Callander and Oban Railway Company; the Catheart District Railway Company; the Charnwood Forest Railway Company; the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company; the Cockermouth Keswick and Penrith Railway Company; the Dearne Valley Railway Company; the Dornoch Light Railway Company; the Dundee and Newtyle Railway Company; the Harborne Railway Company; the Killin Railway, Company; the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Company; the Knott End Railway Company; the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway company; the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company; the Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway Company; the North and South Western Junction Railway Company; the North London Railway Company; the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Committee; the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company; the Solway Junction Railway Company; the Stratford- upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway Company; the Tottenham and Forest Gate Rail way Company; the Wick and Lybster Light Railway Company; the Wirral Railway Company; the Yorkshire Dales Railway (Skipton to Grassington) Company. 4. The North Eastern, Eastern, and East Scottish Group. 4. The North Eastern Railway Company; the Great Central Railway Company; the Great Eastern Railway Company; the Great Northern Railway Company; the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company; the North British Railway Company; the Great North of Scotland Railway Company. 4. The Brackenhill Light Railway Company; the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway Company; the East and West Yorkshire Union Railways Company; the East Lincolnshire Railway Company; the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway Company; the Forcett Railway Company; the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Company; the Gifford and Garvald Railway Company; the Great North of England. Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway Company; the Horncastle Railway Company; the Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Company; the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway Company; the Lauder Light Railway Company; the London and Blackwall Railway Company; the Mansfield Railway Company; the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Company; the Newburgh and North Fife Railway Company; the North Lindsey Light Railways Company; the Nottingham and Grantham Railway and Canal Company; the Nottingham Joint Station Committee; the Nottingham Suburban Railway Company; the Senforth and Sefton Junction Railway Company; the Sheffield District Railway Company; the South Yorkshire Junction Railway Company; the Stamford and Essendine Railway Company; the West Riding Railway Committee. | |
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