Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Act 1877
WHEREAS the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company (who are herein-after referred to as "the Company") were originally incorporated in the year 1809 by the name of "The Lydney and Lydbrook Railway Company," and their name was changed by an Act passed in the following session to that which they now bear, and they were by the said Acts authorised to construct a main railway or tramroad from the Forest of Dean to Lydney Pill on the Severn, and to construct a basin at Lydney; and the powers of ...