An Act to confer various powers upon the North British Railway Company for the abandonment of certain railways and works, the purchase of lands for station purposes, and with respect to superfluous lands, deferred preference dividends, and other matters connected with their undertaking; and for other purposes.
WHEREAS it is expedient that the North British Railway Company should be authorized to abandon the construction of certain railways or parts of railways and works authorized by the following Acts, so far as the same respectively are not now completed or authorized to be abandoned; that is to say, certain railways or parts of railways and works authorized by "The North British (Edinburgh, Dunfermline, and Perth) Railway Act, 1863;" "The North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow (Bridge of Forth)...