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TOLLS.
The act provides that £6,000 shall be subscribed before the work is commenced, and the railway to be completed in three years.

The situation and other description of this railway will be found under the article "Mamhilad Railway," in this work.

WARRINGTON AND NEWTON RAILWAY.
10 George IV. Cap. 37, Royal Assent 14th May, 1829.

11 George IV. Cap. 57, Royal Assent 29th May, 1830.

IN the year 1829 several landed gentlemen and others interested in the trade of the town of Warrington and its neighbourhood, obtained an act for a railway or tramroad, to join the Liverpool and Manchester Railway then in a course of execution, and thereby to afford an easier conveyance than heretofore for the import and export of goods to and from Warrington and the adjacent places. This act is entitled,' An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, at or near Wargrave Lane, in Newton-in Mackerfield, to Warrington, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and Two collateral Branches to communicate therewith.'  By this act the proprietors are incorporated as "The Warrington and Newton Railway Company," with powers to execute the proposed work, and to enter lands, take materials, and have all other privileges granted on similar occasions. They may also construct bridges, tunnels, inclined planes, warehouses, wharfs and all other necessary buildings, including steam engines, none of which, however, are to be used without consuming their own smoke. The road is not to pass nearer than twenty yards from the Sankey Brook Canal, which canal the company is not to obstruct under penalties to be enforced by any two justices of the