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Series
Light Railway Orders: Hearings of Objections
Catalogue reference: MT 130
What's it about?
MT 130
This series consists of bound records of hearings of objections to proposals for light railways, held by the Light Railway Commissioners under the Light Railways Act 1896.
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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MT 130
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Title (The name of the record)
- Light Railway Orders: Hearings of Objections
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Date (When the record was created)
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1898-1907
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of bound records of hearings of objections to proposals for light railways, held by the Light Railway Commissioners under the Light Railways Act 1896.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Associated Plans are in MT 54
Orders of the Commissioners and papers relating to them, from 1896 until the 1921 are in MT 58
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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)
- Light Railways Commission, 1896-1922
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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10 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1985 Department of Transport
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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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- Topics
- Railways
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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 Light Railways Act of 1896 enabled the Board of Trade to appoint three Light Railway Commissioners to authorise provisionally the construction and working of light railways, subject to the Board's confirmation, and so to avoid the cost to promoters of private bill procedures.
The Commissioners had power under section 7(1) of the Act to consider objections to proposals for light railways, taking all reasonable steps to consult local authorities, land owners and occupiers. This series consists of a bound set of records of hearings by the Commissioners of such objections, dating from 1898 to 1907.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11179/
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Light Railway Orders: Hearings of Objections
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