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
Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 119
What's it about?
RAIL 119
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company.Documents include minutes of board, committee and general meetings, agreements, specification, estimates and plans for construction...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 119
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1876-1923
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company.
Documents include minutes of board, committee and general meetings, agreements, specification, estimates and plans for construction of the line and buildings, general agreements and records of dealings with contractors and others.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- CLW
-
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)
- Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company, 1876-1923
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 199 files, rolls and volumes
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
-
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 Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company was incorporated under an act of 27th June 1876.
Under the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Act of 28th June 1877, the Furness Railway Company was empowered to enter into an agreement with the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company with regard to work and management, and a joint committee was to be appointed for this purpose.
By London Midland and Scottish Railway Preliminary Absorption Scheme 1923 dated 3rd April 1923, Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company was vested in London Midland and Scottish Railway Company as from 1st January 1923.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12307/
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 119
Cleator and Workington Junction 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.