The North-eastern Railway Company's (Leyburn and Hawes Branch, &c.) Act, 1870
WHEREAS by "The Hawes and Melmerby Railway Act, 1865," the Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company (herein-after called "the Hawes Company") were incorporated, and authorised to make railways (herein-after called "the Hawes Railway") from Hawes to the Bedale and Leyburn branch of the North-eastern Railway at Leyburn, and from that branch to the North-eastern Railway near Melmerby; and the Hawes Company and the North-eastern Railway Company (herein-after called "the Company") were authorised to ent...