Maryport and Carlisle Railway Act 1855
WHEREAS by an Act (Local and Personal) passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Chapter One hundred and one, herein-after called "the Act of 1837," the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company were incorporated for the Purpose of making a Railway from the Town and Port of Maryport to the Borough of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland, there to join the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway; the Preamble of that Act reciting that such a Railway "would be productive...