sentences:  The Montgomeryshire Canal, the Shrewsbury Canal and the Shropshire Canal network would become part of the new company.A number of new railways were proposed, and parts of the canal network would be converted to railways, but the canal link from Ellesmere Port to Middlewich via Barbridge was to be retained as a waterway.The company became the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company, and Acts to authorise three of the new railways were passed in 1846.