Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Dean Railway branch at Whimsey. The capital was £30,000 in £10 shares, and there were borrowing powers for £10,000. The GWR was authorised to subscribe up to half the capital. Five years were allowed for completion of the line; there was no mention of carrying passengers. The engineer's estimate for construction was £28,268, no stations being envisaged. The company was authorised to enter into agreements with the GWR for working and maintaining the line. By the time of the Act, the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line was standard gauge but the Forest of Dean Railway branch was still broad
1911 Forest of Dean by-election to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. At the 1918 General Election, Webb received the coupon of endorsement from the Coalition government. 1911 Forest of Dean by-election The Forest of Dean by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system. Liberal Party Henry Webb Conservative Party David Hope Kyd Webb was appointed as a Junior Whip in 1912, which required him to face the electorate again, when he was