| Short Title: | Chester and Crewe Railway Act 1840 |
| Type: | Act |
| Parliament: | Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Long Title: | An Act for incorporating the Chester and Crewe Railway with the Grand Junction Railway, and for extending to the said first-mentioned Railway the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament relating to the said last-mentioned Railway; and for other Purposes. |
| Citation: | 3 & 4 Vict. c. xlix |
| Royal Assent: | 19 May 1840 |
| Repealing Legislation: | London and North Western Railway Act 1846 |
| Status: | repealed |
| Original Text: | https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/3-4/49/pdfs/ukla_18400049_en.pdf |
| Collapsed: | yes |
The Chester and Crewe Railway was an early British railway company absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1840 via the (3 & 4 Vict. c. xlix).[1] [2] The company built the section Chester–Crewe of the North Wales Coast line, in length, the engineer was Robert Stephenson and the contractor for the work was Thomas Brassey.[3] It was the absorption of this company that led the Grand Junction Railway to building its locomotive works at Crewe, which led to Crewe becoming a major railway town.