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BW157/13

Swansea Canal (Canal Number 99)

Date

1795-1972

Reference code

BW157/13

Administrative /​ Biographical history

Company of Proprietors of the Swansea Canal, 1794-1873, was sold to the Great Western Railway in 1873. The canal was nationalised under the British Transport Commission: Railway Executive (Western Region) from 1 January 1948. The Swansea canal was then transferred to the British Transport Commission: Docks & Inland Waterways Executive on 17 July 1949.

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