Great Northern Railway Act 1871
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the year 1866 the Bradford, Eccleshill, and Idle Railway Company were incorporated for the making of a railway (about three and a half miles in length) between the Great Northern Railway at Bradford, in the west riding of Yorkshire, through Eccleshill to Idle, and they were authorised for that purpose to raise a capital of sixty-five thousand pounds in shares (section 6), and to borrow twenty-one thousand six hundred pounds (section 10), and the Great Northern Rail...