 Now in that year a new company was promoted, to be called the West Riding and Grimsby Railway, and in the 1862 Parliamentary session it was authorised, on 7 August 1862.The logic of this apparent reversal of policy was that the line would give West Riding industries access to Grimsby docks, for export of their products.The project was sponsored by the South Yorkshire Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, although it was nominally independent.