Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Act 1897 ; an act for conferring further powers on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company to provide for the transfer to that Company of the undertakings of the West Lancashire Railway Company and the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway Company to repeal certain powers granted to the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company over those undertakings and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and for other purposes.[15th July 1897]. 60 & 61 Vict.Ch.CXX