Railway Regulation Act 1840
1840 CHAPTER 97
An Act for regulating Railways.
[10th August 1840]
WHEREAS it is expedient for the Safety of the Public to provide for the due Supervision of Railways :
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,