Railway Clearing Act 1850
WHEREAS for some Time past Arrangements have subsisted between several Railway Companies for the Transmission without Interruption of the through Traffic in Passengers, Animals, Minerals, and Goods passing over different Lines of Railway, for the Purpose of affording, in respect to such Passengers, Animals, Minerals, and Goods, the same or the like Facilities as if such Lines had belonged to One Company, which Arrangements are commonly known as and in this Act are designated as "the Clearing ...