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Series
Cornwall Minerals Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 133
What's it about?
RAIL 133
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Cornwall Minerals Railway Company.Documents include minutes, contracts and agreements, receipts and indentures as well as plans and diagrams.
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 133
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cornwall Minerals Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1872-1898
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Cornwall Minerals Railway Company.
Documents include minutes, contracts and agreements, receipts and indentures as well as plans and diagrams.
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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)
- CMR
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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)
- Cornwall Minerals Railway Company, 1873-1896
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 42 files, rolls and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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 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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The Cornwall Minerals Railway was incorporated under the Cornwall Mineral Railway Act 21 July 1873.
It was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway Company as from 1 July 1896 under the Cornwall Minerals Railway Act 7 August 1896.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12321/
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Cornwall Minerals Railway Company
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