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.