Chester and Crewe Railway

The Chester and Crewe Railway was an early British railway company absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1840 via the Chester and Crewe Railway Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. xlix).^[1][2] The company built the section Chester–Crewe of the North Wales Coast line, 21 miles (34 km) in length, the engineer was Robert Stephenson and the contractor for the work was Thomas Brassey.^[3] It was the absorption of this company that led the Grand Junction Railway to building its locomotive works at Crewe, which led to Crewe becoming a major railway town.

Chester and Crewe Railway Act 1840
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for incorporating the Chester and Crewe Railway with the Grand Junction Railway, and for extending to the said first-mentioned Railway the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament relating to the said last-mentioned Railway; and for other Purposes.
Citation	3 & 4 Vict. c. xlix
Dates
Royal assent	19 May 1840
Other legislation
Repealed by	London and North Western Railway Act 1846
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

References

1. "Grand Junction Railway". Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 12 February 1840. Retrieved 24 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. 1840 (3 & 4 Vict.) c. xlix. An Act for incorporating the Chester and Crewe Railway with the Grand Junction Railway, and for extending to the said first-mentioned Railway the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament relating to the said last-mentioned Railway; and for other Purposes.
3. Helps, Arthur The Life and Works of Mr Brassey, 1872 republished Nonsuch, 2006, page 106. ISBN 1-84588-011-0

Further reading

• Whishaw, Francis (1842). The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated (2nd ed.). London: John Weale. pp. 55–57. OCLC 833076248.