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Series
Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 76
What's it about?
RAIL 76
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company.Records include minutes of board, general and 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 76
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Title (The name of the record)
- Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839-1846
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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 Gloucester Railway Company.
Records include minutes of board, general and 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)
- BTG
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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 Gloucester Railway Company, 1828-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5 rolls 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 Gloucester Railway Company was incorporated under the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Act of 19th June 1828 as Bristol & Gloucestershire Railway Company. By an act of 1839, the company was required to take and use name and style of "Bristol & Gloucester Railway Company".
In 1846, by an act of 3rd August, the company was to be incorporated in and to form part of Midland Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12264/
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