HC Deb 12 February 1900 vol 78 c1202

"For conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company in respect of their own undertaking, and upon that company and the London and North Western Railway Company in respect of undertakings in which they are jointly interested, and upon the Great Western and Great Central Railways Joint Committee in respect of their undertaking; for vesting the undertakings of the Staines and West Drayton and the Birmingham and Henley-in-Arden Railway Companies in the Great Western Railway Company; for transferring to that company the powers of the Birmingham, North Warwickshire, and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway Company, and extending the time for the construction of certain authorised railways of that company; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.