North British Railway Act, 1887
WHEREAS a branch railway for the conveyance of goods and minerals from the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway near the Drumshoreland Station to the railway of the Broxburn Oil Company (Limited) all in the parish of Uphall in the county of Linlithgow would be of local and public advantage and the North British Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") are willing to make such railway if authorised by Parliament to do so :

And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be authorised ...