The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1872
WHEREAS the East Gloucestershire Railway Company (who are herein-after referred to as "the Company") were incorporated by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864," for the construction of railways from Cheltenham to Witney in Oxfordshire, and through Fairford and Lechlade to Farringdon in Berkshire, with short lines in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham to connect the undertaking with the Midland Railway, and they were by the said Act authorised to raise by means of shares 600,000l. and by b...