Catalogue description Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company

The Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company was incorporated under its act of 27th July 1846.

Under an act of 22nd July 1847 power was given to the company to sell its undertaking to London and North Western Railway Company and Midland Railway Company or either of them. Reports of meetings in the Railway Times, pp 253 and 827, for March and August 1850, indicate that Midland Railway Company had declined to purchase the undertaking and that Coventry, Nuneaton Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company was endeavouring to take advantage of the Railways Abandonment Bill to wind up concern.

At a meeting of the Company reported on p 202 of Railway Times for February 1851 or was reported that works had been abandoned. Railway Times of 14th June 1851, p 599, reports that a Mr Hodges had applied for and obtained a mandamus against Company for completion of its line of railway.

Strong criticism of a proposal of London and North Western Railway Company to purchase undertaking was voiced in Railway Times in 1853 (see pp 770, 793, 794 and 821) and at the half-yearly meeting of London and North Western Railway Company of 12th August 1853 power was given to directors of latter company to purchase outstanding shares of Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company.