Companies established in 1846

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, National Land Company, Nationwide Building Society, Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, J. & W. Seligman & Co., Charles Scribner's Sons, A. T. Cross Company, Scarborough Building Society, Haberbusch i Schiele, Jarvis plc, Ulysse Nardin, H. Cegielski - Poznan, Alvan Clark & Sons, Great Northern Brewery, Dundalk, Dalgety plc, Lefèvre-Utile, Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway, A. Hall and Sons Terra Cotta, Bristol Water, Electric Telegraph Company. Excerpt: The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) (known also as "the Brighton line" or "the Brighton Railway") was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922. Its territory formed a rough triangle, with London at its apex, practically the whole coastline of Sussex as its base, and a large part of Surrey. It was bounded on its western side by the lines of the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR), which provided an alternative route to Portsmouth in Hampshire. On its eastern side the railway was bounded by the South Eastern Railway (SER) - later one component of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR) - which provided an alternative route to Bexhill, St Leonards-on-Sea, and Hastings. The LB&SCR supplied the most direct routes from London to the South Coast seaside resorts of Brighton, Eastbourne, Worthing, Littlehampton and Bognor, and to the ports of Newhaven and Shoreham. In addition, the company served the inland towns/cities of Chichester, Horsham, East Grinstead and Lewes, and jointly served Croydon, Tunbridge Wells, Dorking and Guildford. At the London end was a complicated suburban and outer-suburban network of lines, emanating from London Bridge and Victoria stations, as well as shared interests in two cross-London lines. The company was formed by a merger of five pre-existing companies in 1846, and was in turn merged with the L&SWR, the SE&CR and several minor railway companies in southern England, as a result of the Railways Act 1921 grouping, to form the Southern Railway (Great Britain) as from 1 January 1923. A map of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at London Victoria station. The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) was formed by Act of Parliament on 27 July 1846, through the amalgamation of a number of pre-existing railway companies. These were: (Only the first two of these were independent operating railways. The Brighton and Chichester, and Brighton Lewes and Hastings had both been purchased by th