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Series
Charing Cross Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 107
What's it about?
RAIL 107
This series details the establishment and administration of the Charing Cross Railway Company.The documents consist of minutes of meetings, accounting records, a register of shareholders, and reports on the removal of bodies from a burial ground.
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 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charing Cross Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858-1870
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series details the establishment and administration of the Charing Cross Railway Company.
The documents consist of minutes of meetings, accounting records, a register of shareholders, and reports on the removal of bodies from a burial ground.
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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)
- CXB
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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)
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- Charing Cross Railway Company, 1859-1864
- South Eastern Railway Company, 1836-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1972-2003 British Railways Board
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated
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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 Charing Cross Railway was incorporated by the Charing Cross Railway Act 1859 which authorised the construction of a railway commencing by a junction with the South Eastern Railway near Bermondsey Street in the parish of St Olave Southwark and terminating at Hungerford Street in the parish of St Martins in the Fields, Westminster. The scheme was supported by the South Eastern Railway Company; in fact four of the Charing Cross Railways's nine directors were also directors of the South Eastern Railway Company. The South Eastern Railway required the line to gain access to Central London in competition with the threat of the proposed Victoria Station. The line was opened on 11 Jan 1864.
The Charing Cross Railway was leased by the South Eastern Railway immediately from its incorporation and became vested in the South Eastern Railway by the powers of the Charing Cross Railway Act 1863.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12295/
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Charing Cross Railway Company: Records
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