Mixed 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) and 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge[1]
Length
8 miles 41 chains (13.7 km)
United Kingdom legislation
Merionethshire Railway Act 1871
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act for making a Railway from Festiniog in the county of Merioneth to the railway of the Cambrian Railways Company, in the parish of Llandecwyn in the same county; and for other purposes.
Citation
34 & 35 Vict. c. lxxii
Dates
Royal assent
29 June 1871
Text of statute as originally enacted
United Kingdom legislation
Merionethshire Railway (Extension of Time) Act 1876
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Merionethshire Railway.
Citation
39 & 40 Vict. c. lxxvii
Dates
Royal assent
27 June 1876
United Kingdom legislation
Merionethshire Railway (Extension of Time) Act 1879
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to further extend the time for the completion of the Merionethshire Railway.
Citation
42 & 43 Vict. c. liii
Dates
Royal assent
3 July 1879
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Merionethshire Railway (MR) was a proposed 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm) and 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) dual gauge railway in south Caernarfonshire (now part of Gwynedd) North Wales, United Kingdom. It was incorporated by an act of Parliament (34 & 35 Vict. c. lxxii) on 29 June 1871. Powers to build the line lapsed in 1885[2] and were abandoned on 12 July 1887. Work to build the line never started, though parliamentary extensions of time to do so were obtained in 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. lxxvii), 1879,[3] and 1882.[1]
^ abBoyd 1988, p. 58.
^Southern 1995, p. 7.
^Merionethshire Railway (Extension of Time) Act 1879
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