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Series
Bristol and Birmingham Railway
Catalogue reference: RAIL 74
What's it about?
RAIL 74
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway Company.Records include minutes of board meeting and locomotive and rolling stock records.
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 74
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Title (The name of the record)
- Bristol and Birmingham Railway
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1843-1849
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway Company.
Records include minutes of board meeting and locomotive and rolling stock records.
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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)
- BBR
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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)
- Bristol and Birmingham Railway, 1845-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 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
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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 Bristol and Birmingham Railway Company was formed in 1845 by the amalgamation of the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway Company and the Bristol & Gloucester Railway Company. To carry this into effect a bill was read in Parliament and an agreement was made dated 14 January 1845.
The companies worked together under a committee of directors from March 1845 but under the Bristol & Birmingham and Midland Railway Act of 3 August 1846, those two companies were incorporated in and formed part of Midland Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12262/
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