Bedale and Leyburn Railway Act 1857
WHEREAS by "The Bedale and Leyburn Railway Act, 16 & 17 Vict. 1853," the Bedale and Leyburn Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") were incorporated, and were authorized to make and maintain a Railway from the Bedale Branch of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, now forming Part of the North-eastern Railway, to or near to Leyburn in the North Riding of the County of York, and for the Purposes of that Act to raise a Capital of Fifty thousand Pounds in Five thousand Shares of ...