Mersey Railway Act 1896. An Act to authorise the Mersey Railway Company to work the Traffic on their Railways by Electrical or other Motive Power and for other purposes.
WHEREAS by the Mersey Railway Act 1866 the Mersey Railway Company (herein-after called "the Company") were incorporated and were authorised to make a railway under the River Mersey to connect Liverpool with Birkenhead:

And whereas by various subsequent Acts the powers of the Company have been from time to time extended and further powers have been conferred upon them:

And whereas the Company have constructed and opened for public traffic various railways including the railway under the Rive...