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Series
Chester Joint Station Committee
Catalogue reference: RAIL 114
What's it about?
RAIL 114
This series consists of minutes and reports miscellaneous books and records of the Chester Joint Station Committee.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 114
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Title (The name of the record)
- Chester Joint Station Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
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1846-1867
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of minutes and reports miscellaneous books and records of the Chester Joint Station Committee.
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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)
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Chester Joint Station Committee, 1846-1867
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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33 files, papers and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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)
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No further accruals expected
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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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A joint committee was formed, for erecting a Joint Station at Chester, consisting of representatives of London and North Western; Chester and Holyhead; Shrewsbury and Chester; Chester and Birkenhead; and Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction railway companies and held its first meeting on 22nd December 1846.
Chester and Holyhead Railway was vested in London and North Western Railway on 23rd July 1858; Shrewsbury and Chester Railway in Great Western Railway on 1st September 1854 (by Great Western and Birmingham and Chester Railways Consolidation Act 7th August 1854); and Chester and Birkenhead in Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway by the act of 22nd July 1847, subsequently becoming Birkenhead Railway under the act of 1st August 1859.
Affairs of Chester Joint Station were managed by Chester Joint Station Committee until their functions were taken over by London and North Western and Great Western Railways Joint Committee on 4th October 1867 and this committee became London Midland and Scottish and Great Western Railways Joint Committee as from 1st January 1923, ceasing at the time of the nationalisation of railways, 1st January 1948 under the Transport Act 1947.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12302/
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