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Series
Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 138
What's it about?
RAIL 138
This series details the establishment and abandonment of the Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company.Documents consist of minutes of the provisional committee and directors.
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 138
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Title (The name of the record)
- Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series details the establishment and abandonment of the Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company.
Documents consist of minutes of the provisional committee and directors.
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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)
- CLJ
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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)
- Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company, 1845-1845
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 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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At a meeting of 8th March 1845 it was decided to form the Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company under the above name, but on 23rd July 1845, it was decided to unite the project with Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12326/
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Coventry and Leicester Junction Railway Company
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