Catalogue description Chester Joint Station Committee

A joint committee was formed, for erecting a Joint Station at Chester, consisting of representatives of London and North Western; Chester and Holyhead; Shrewsbury and Chester; Chester and Birkenhead; and Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction railway companies and held its first meeting on 22nd December 1846.

Chester and Holyhead Railway was vested in London and North Western Railway on 23rd July 1858; Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in Great Western Railway on 1st September 1854 (by Great Western and Birmingham and Chester Railways Consolidation Act 7th August 1854); and Chester and Birkenhead in Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway by the act of 22nd July 1847, subsequently becoming Birkenhead Railway under the act of 1st August 1859.

Affairs of Chester Joint Station were managed by Chester Joint Station Committee until their functions were taken over by London and North Western and Great Western Railways Joint Committee on 4th October 1867 and this committee became London Midland and Scottish and Great Western Railways Joint Committee as from 1st January 1923, ceasing at the time of the nationalisation of railways, 1st January 1948 under the Transport Act 1947.