The Burton-upon-Trent Connexion Railways Act, 1865
WHEREAS by "The Midland Railway (Burton Branches) Act, 1860," (herein-after called "the Midland Act,") Messieurs Samuel Allsopp and Sons were authorized to construct certain Railways therein described as Connexion Railway No. 1. and Connexion Railway No. 2., and for such Purpose to enter upon, take, and use Lands by Compulsion, and it was in and by the said Act (Section Thirty-nine) provided that the said Railways, when constructed, should be private Railways: And whereas by the said Act (Sec...