File /2 - Welsh Highland Railway: Receivership

The file comprises legal papers, correspondence and associated documents primarily concerning the receivership of the Welsh Highland Railway (Light Railway) Company as well as its eventual compulsory liquidation. The major claim for remuneration coming from Caernarvonshire County Council who, together with other local authorities, brought the initial action which lead to the receivership. The papers deal with various issues relating to claims made against the company during this period such as those of the Great Western Railway, for work carried out at the Croesor level crossing, and the Railway Clearing House. There are also papers concerning an earlier compensation claim for damages brought by Tourists Hotels Limited against the company for its failure to honour certain conditions of an agreement connected with the railway station at Beddgelert. Other issues arising from the receivership and liquidation include the leasing of the railway to the Festiniog Railway Company and the subsequent surrender of that lease; claims by the administrators of the estate of the first receiver, Lt-Col. Holman Fred Stephens, who died whilst in that position; the tenancy of land and premises at Quellyn (Cwellyn) Lake Station; the sale of land by the liquidator including that at Dinas Station (formerly Llanwnda Junction) to Caernarvonshire County Council, 1953, and a portion of the Goods Yard thereon to the Gwynedd River Board (North West Wales River Board), 1955, and land at Rhyd-ddu Station for use as a proposed parking ground to Caernarvonshire County Council, 1955. The papers include a bound series of plans and sections and Book of Reference, 1864, for the Croesor & Portmadoc Railway (Extension Railway & Wharves) as well as a Book of Documents in connection with the Light Railway Commission, November 1914, regarding the Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway (Light Railway) and the North Wales Narrow Guage Railways (Light Railways).