The Abandonment of Railways Act 1869
WHEREAS by the provisions of The Abandonment of Railways Act, 1850, as revived and amended by The Railway Companies (Scotland) Act, 1867, and The Railway Companies Act, 1867, a railway company may, if their whole railway is authorized to be abandoned, be wound up under The Companies Act, 1862; and doubts have arisen whether such company can be so wound up on the petition of a creditor or of any person except a shareholder, and it is expedient to remove such doubts and otherwise to amend the s...