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Incorporated under Act 29[59?] Geo.3 c.13 (1788).
Power was given to make docks at Port Carlisle under Act 7 Wm.4 c.50 [60?] (Dock Act).
The Act of 4 August 1853 authorised the conversion of the canal into a railway and incorporated the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company.
The Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company was leased from 1 August 1862 to the North British Railway for 999 years under the North British Railway, Port Carlisle Railway and Dock (Lease) Act 1862, and under the North British Railway (Amalgamation etc.) Act of 12 August 1880 the company was amalgamated with the North British Railway as from 1 August 1880.
The North British Railway became part of the London and North Eastern Railway from 1 January 1923 under the North Eastern, Eastern and East Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30 December 1922. |