North Eastern Railway Act, 1890
WHEREAS it is expedient that the North Eastern Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") should be empowered to make the new railways roads and footpaths and to alter and widen the portions of their existing railways and execute the other works by this Act authorised and to acquire the lands in this Act described and that the other powers in this Act mentioned should be conferred on the Company:

And whereas plans and sections showing the lines and levels of the said new railways and...