A new acquisition into the Midland Railway Society’s collection in the Midland Railway Study Centre….
Minute of Meeting held in the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Offices, 26th March 1836. Deputations present from; Liverpool and Manchester, Grand Junction, London & Birmingham, North Union and Midland Counties. The committee founded for protecting the interests of the several companies and specially to oppose Railway projects where the Traffic has already been appropriated to other lines under existing Acts. A fund of £2000 to be raised to support this motion, with a sub-committee formed of Messrs. Boothby, Rathbone and Hodgson “to mermorial the Treasury that the Legislature may not sanction new Railway projects which are not apparently called-for by public necessity”. Sir J.D. Hesketh Bart. to be Chairman of the General Committee, Mr. Booth to be Secretary.
