Billinghay and Metheringham (Light) Railway (Abandonment) Act 1888
WHEREAS the Billinghay and Metheringham (Light) Railway Company (herein-after called "the Company") were incorporated by the Billinghay and Metheringham (Light) Railway Act 1883 (herein-after called "the Act of 1883") with power to make and maintain a railway in the county of Lincoln and to raise forty-two thousand pounds by shares and to borrow fourteen thousand pounds on mortgage:

And whereas the period for the compulsory purchase of the land was limited to three years from the passing of ...