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Records of canal undertakings taken over by the British Transport Commission under...
Catalogue reference: Division within RAIL
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Division within RAIL
Records of canal companies and their associated undertakings nationalised by the Transport Act 1947 are in RAIL 800 - RAIL 899, RAIL 1113, RAIL 1168 - RAIL 1171 and RAIL 1173
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within RAIL
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of canal undertakings taken over by the British Transport Commission under the Transport Act 1947
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1634-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of canal companies and their associated undertakings nationalised by the Transport Act 1947 are in RAIL 800 - RAIL 899, RAIL 1113, RAIL 1168 - RAIL 1171 and RAIL 1173
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 106 series
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index of the canal companies series precedes the list of RAIL 800
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The canal network in Britain developed from the later seventeenth century until the mid-19th century; the first statute enabling canal construction being an 'Act for making and keeping navigable the Rivers Aire and Calder in the County of York', of 1699. Governmental involvement in canals developed from the 1850s when the Board of Trade, Railway Department, assumed responsibility for canals.
During the later 19th century, many canal companies, severely affected by the competition from railways, were absorbed into railway companies.
In 1947, surviving canal companies were taken into public ownership by the Transport Act of that year.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- PRO Domestic Records Information Sheet 83 Canals: Administrative and other Records (1998)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1023/
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