Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Act 1854
WHEREAS by the "London and South-western Railway Company's, Salisbury and Yeovil Extension, Act, 1848," after reciting that the making of a Railway in extension of the London and South-western Railway from Salisbury to Yeovil, with Branches to Shaftesbury, and to join the proposed Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway near Yeovil, would be of great public Advantage, and that the London and South-western Railway Company were willing to make the s...