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Railway Rates and Charges, No.23 (Great North <strong>of</strong> Scotland Railway),<br />

Order Confirmation Act 1892 447<br />

Railway Rates and Charges, No.24 (Highland Railway), Order<br />

Confirmation Act 1892 448<br />

Railway Rates and Charges, No.25 (North British Railway, &c.), Order<br />

Confirmation Act 1892 449<br />

Railway Rates and Charges, No.26 (Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway,<br />

&c.), Order Confirmation Act 1892. 450<br />

9.214 The various 1892 Acts had the same purpose as those <strong>of</strong> 1891: to confirm a<br />

series <strong>of</strong> provisional orders setting down scales <strong>of</strong> rates and charges for the<br />

carriage <strong>of</strong> merchandise. 451<br />

446 55 & 56 Vict. c.lx (1892). The GSWR was formed in 1850 on the amalgamation <strong>of</strong> a<br />

number <strong>of</strong> existing lines. The company also ran a fleet <strong>of</strong> coastal steam ships. In 1923 the<br />

GSWR was grouped under the LMS. The 1892 (No.22) Act applied to three connected<br />

railway operations.<br />

447 55 & 56 Vict. c.lxi (1892). The Great North <strong>of</strong> Scotland Railway opened its first stretch <strong>of</strong><br />

line in 1854 and reached Aberdeen in 1856. Up to 1881 various railway companies were<br />

acquired and amalgamated. In the 1923 grouping the railway became part <strong>of</strong> the LNER.<br />

448 55 & 56 Vict. c.lxii (1892). The Highland Railway, formed from a railway merger in 1865,<br />

centred eventually on Inverness and Aviemore. The railway company became part <strong>of</strong> the<br />

LMS on grouping in 1923.<br />

449 55 & 56 Vict. c.lxiii (1892). The North British Railway (NBR) opened in 1846 and ran<br />

initially from Berwick to Edinburgh. The company expanded until grouping in 1923 when it<br />

became a part <strong>of</strong> the LNER. The 1892 (No. 25) Act applied to a total <strong>of</strong> nine railway<br />

companies, all connected to the Clyde, Forth and Tay region.<br />

450 55 & 56 Vict. c.lxiv (1892). The Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway (in Ireland) opened in<br />

1869. It was amalgamated within the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company in 1893.<br />

By 1925 it was part <strong>of</strong> the Great Southern Railways network which was subsequently<br />

nationalised by the Irish government in 1944. The 1892 (No.26) Act covered 62 separate<br />

railway companies then operating across the island <strong>of</strong> Ireland. The Northern Ireland<br />

railway network was nationalised for that province in 1948.<br />

451 In all, at least 240 companies were regulated by the 26 1892 Order Confirmation Acts.<br />

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