Papers relating to the attempted amalgamation of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company with the Forth and Clyde Navigation Company and the Scottish Central Railway Company and to the ensuing action against these companies on the grounds that such a union could be legalised only through an Act of Parliament

• Reference:GB 252 PE/19/Bundle26
• Dates of Creation:1847-1850

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Printed copy of a circular from Peter Blackburn, chairman, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to the shareholders of the company stating that the Scottish Central Railway “has declared itself free from the engagement attempted to be enforced in favour of the Caledonian and English lines but has refused by a majority of votes (though a minority of shares) to enter into any arrangement at present with the Edinburgh and Glasgow. Your directors are of the opinion that an alliance with the Scottish Central is of the utmost importance to your company”, 1847.

  Extract from the minutes of the board of directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company regarding the terms which should be offered to the Scottish Central Railway either for amalgamation or alternatively for a Lease of the railway on perpetuity to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company at a fixed rent of nine per cent on the paid up capital, 1847.

  Note for the company of proprietors of the Forth and Clyde navigation in reference to the action at the instance of Bryan Gregson, Woodlands, Glasgow against the company stating the amount of capital of the company in February 1846, the date of the proposed amalgamation with the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Scottish Central railway companies, 1850.

  Minutes of a joint meeting of the agents for the pursuer and the defender in the case of Gregson against the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, the Forth and Clyde Navigation Company and the Scottish Central Railway Company relating to an agreement on compensation for Gregson, 1850.

  Also includes:

  Draft petition from Perth town council to Parliament requesting that a Bill relating to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, halted in the House of Lords during the previous session due to the death of the king, be reintroduced, 1838.

  Petition from Perth town council to the House of Commons showing “that very great interruption has long been experienced to the extensive trade which is carried on in the city of Perth and its neighbourhood with the River Clyde in consequence of the necessity which exists of employing ordinary carts at an expense of no less than two shillings and six pence per ton for conveying all goods destined for any of the western ports or markets through the streets of Glasgow” and expressing the belief that a railway from the Broomielaw to the upper levels of Glasgow would prove a considerable saving of expense in regard to the trade of Perth and the whole east coast of Scotland, nd (1830?).

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