North British Railway Act, 1885
WHEREAS the following works would be of public and local advantage and it is expedient that the North British Railway Company (in this Act called "the Company") should be authorised to make the same (that is to say):

1. A railway (in this Act called "Railway No. 1") 1 furlong and 8·50 chains or thereabouts in length to be wholly situate in the parish of Greenside and royal burgh of Edinburgh in the county of the city of Edinburgh and in the parish of South Leith in the county of Edinburgh or...