Cheshire Lines Act, 1917
WHEREAS by the Cheshire Lines Act 1867 the Cheshire Lines Committee (in this Act called "the Committee") were incorporated and all the powers authorities and rights by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (New Lines) Act 1866 vested in the Great Northern Railway Company the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company (now the Great Central Railway Company) and the Midland Railway Company are now exercised in their behalf by the Committee and the railway of the Committee...