HC Deb 31 January 1902 vol 102 c12

"To enable the Great Central Railway Company to make new railways and other works and to acquire additional lands; to extend the time for the compulsory purchase of certain lands, and for the completion of certain railways of the Company, the Company and the Great Western Railway Company, the North Wales and Liverpool Railway Committee, the Liverpool, St. Helens and South Lancashire Railway Company, and for the sale of the superfluous lands of the Cheshire Lines Committee, the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies Committee and the Wigan Junction Railways Company, and to enable the Company to subscribe to the Capital of the Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Company; and for other purposes," read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills.