The West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company was amalgamated with the larger North Eastern Railway Co. The terms were finalised on 1 July 1865. Between 1867 and 1870 Ralph Ward Jackson, Robinson Watson and others co-owned vessels with the Company.
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Owners: 1899 North Eastern Railway Co, ( Arthur E Ballam) West Hartlepool; by 1913 North Eastern Railway Co, York (George Nicholson) West Hartlepool; 1915 North Eastern Railway Co, West Hartlepool-renamed Ceylon; 1923 (London & North Eastern Railway Co, Marylebone Station, London) Robert Tate London & North Eastern Railway, West Hartlepool; by 1940 (London & North Eastern Railway Co, Marylebone Station, London) Kenneth P Walker, London & North Eastern Railway Co, West Hartlepool ; 1948 British Transport Commission; 1949 British Transport Docks Board.
Masters: 1904-16 J Gordon.
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