Record revealed
Three wooden wheel models used as court exhibits
These Victorian railway wheel models demonstrate the diverse, and often unexpected, character of exhibits preserved in court records at The National Archives.
Series
Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 72
What's it about?
RAIL 72
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company.Records include board, general and committee minutes.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 72
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1844-1847
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company.
Records include board, general and committee minutes.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- BLH
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company, 1844-1846
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 6 volume(s)
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Railways
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company was incorporated under the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Act of 1844. By the same act, the company was purchased by London & Brighton Railway Company.
In 1846, the London & Brighton, and the London & Croydon railway companies were consolidated and united to form the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Company under the act of 27 July 1846.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12260/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
218,721 records
Within the department: RAIL
Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and...
You are currently looking at the series: RAIL 72
Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway Company
You may be interested in
-
-
Record revealed
Accident register for the North Eastern Railway Company
These record books reveal the substantial dangers to passengers – and for those operating trains – in the first decades that public railways existed.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.