Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Act, 1869
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the year 1809 the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company (who are herein-after referred to as "the company") were incorporated, by the name and style of "The Lydney and Lidbrook Railway Company," for the purpose of making a railway or tramroad from the river Wye at Lidbrook, through the Forest of Dean, to Lydney on the Severn, with various branches to serve the collieries in the Forest of Dean; and by an Act passed in the year 1810 the name of the company was cha...