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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Management Board and Committees: Plans
Catalogue reference: RAIL 788
What's it about?
RAIL 788
This series contains plans that are associated with the minutes of the Great Western Railway Company's Board of Directors and various committees.The plans in this series are associated with the minutes of the Great Western Railway Company's Board...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 788
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Management Board and Committees: Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
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1925-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains plans that are associated with the minutes of the Great Western Railway Company's Board of Directors and various committees.
The plans in this series are associated with the minutes of the Great Western Railway Company's Board of Directors and various committees. The plans are concerned with a variety of civil engineering projects, including buildings, signalling, installations, telegraphy, lighting and dock and harbour improvements.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The plans are grouped together according to the meeting at which they were dealt with. This is represented by the main heading in the list which gives the name of the committee and the date of the meeting. It should be noted that the date of the meeting is not necessarily the date of the plan.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1344 flat sheet(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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British Railways Board
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred from the Great Western Railway Company to the British Transport Commission in 1948, then to the British Railways Board in 1963.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12976/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: RAIL
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Great Western Railway Company: Management Board and Committees: Plans
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