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Brighton and Chichester Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 70
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RAIL 70
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Brighton and Chichester Railway Company.Records include minutes of board, general and provisional committee meetings.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 70
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Title (The name of the record)
- Brighton and Chichester Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1844-1849
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Brighton and Chichester Railway Company.
Records include minutes of board, general and provisional committee meetings.
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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)
- BCH
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Brighton and Chichester Railway Company, 1844-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 volume(s)
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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 Brighton and Chichester Railway Company was incorporated under the Brighton and Chichester Railway Act of 1844. This act gave powers under sections 323 and 324 to lease or sell the company to London & Brighton Railway Company. These powers were continued under an act of 1845.
In the following year, the London & Brighton Railway Company purchased Brighton & Chichester Railway Company with all its rights, powers and privileges and the Brighton & Chichester Railway Company was dissolved. Section 5 of the Act provided that the company "shall be well and effectually vested in London Brighton & South Coast Railway".
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- See Miscellanea: General Information: Archivist's Historical and General Information, No. 253.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12258/
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