Mersey Railway (Rates and Charges) Act 1894
WHEREAS the Mersey Railway is four miles and eight chains in length and about one thousand three hundred yards thereof consists of an exceptionally expensive tunnel under the River Mersey from Liverpool to Birkenhead and a large proportion of the remaining three miles is also in tunnel or covered way under the streets in Liverpool and Birkenhead and the railway involved in its construction an expenditure of about six hundred thousand pounds per mile:

And whereas the working expenses of the r...