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Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 7
What's it about?
RAIL 7
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Alexandra (Newport) Dock Company, later the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company, the construction of relevant docks, railway track, associated structures...
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 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1835-1937
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Alexandra (Newport) Dock Company, later the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company, the construction of relevant docks, railway track, associated structures and the introduction of rolling stock.
Records include board minutes, shareholders' minutes, committee minutes and reports, share issues, financial records, agreements and contracts.
Also included are some minutes of general meetings of the Newport Docks Company.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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AD
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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)
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- Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company, 1882-1922
- Alexandra (Newport) Dock Company, 1865-1882
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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123 files and volumes
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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
- Construction industries
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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 Alexandra (Newport) Dock Company was incorporated by the Alexandra (Newport) Dock Act 6th July 1865. In 1882, the name of the company was changed to The Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company by the Act of that year. The company was responsible for the construction of docks, and later railways and docks, in and around Newport and South Wales.
The company was vested in the Great Western Railway Company as from 1st January 1922 under the Great Western (Western Group) Preliminary Amalgamation Scheme 25th March 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12195/
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