Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Act 1850
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the City of Carlisle in the County of Cumberland, with a Branch thereout, and by the said Act several Persons were incorporated into a Company by the Name of "The Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Company," and were thereby empowered to ma...