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Series
Corris Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 135
What's it about?
RAIL 135
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Corris Railway Company.Documents consist of minutes of directors meetings and a copy letter book.
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 135
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Title (The name of the record)
- Corris Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1885-1930
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Corris Railway Company.
Documents consist of minutes of directors meetings and a copy letter book.
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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)
- CRS
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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)
- Corris Railway Company, 1864-1930
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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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 Corris Railway Company was incorporated by an act of 12th July 1858 as "Corris, Machynlleth and River Dovey Tramroad" but its name changed to Corris Railway Company under an act of 25th July 1864.
Under the Great Western Railway Act 4th June 1930, Corris Railway Company was dissolved and vested in Great Western Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12323/
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