West Lancashire Railway Act, 1871
WHEREAS the making and maintaining of railways from Southport to Preston, as by this Act authorised, would be of public and local advantage: And whereas the persons herein-after named, with others, are willing at their own expense to carry the undertaking into execution, if authorised so to do, and are desirous of being incorporated into a company for that purpose: And whereas plans and sections of the proposed railways, showing the lines and levels thereof, and the lands which may be taken f...