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Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 139
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RAIL 139
This series documents the attempts at establishing the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company.Documents consist of the minutes of the shareholders and board.
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 139
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Title (The name of the record)
- Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1846-1853
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the attempts at establishing the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company.
Documents consist of the minutes of the shareholders and board.
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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)
- CNBL
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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, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company, 1846-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(s)
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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 Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company was incorporated under its act of 27th July 1846.
Under an act of 22nd July 1847 power was given to the company to sell its undertaking to London and North Western Railway Company and Midland Railway Company or either of them. Reports of meetings in the Railway Times, pp 253 and 827, for March and August 1850, indicate that Midland Railway Company had declined to purchase the undertaking and that Coventry, Nuneaton Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company was endeavouring to take advantage of the Railways Abandonment Bill to wind up concern.
At a meeting of the Company reported on p 202 of Railway Times for February 1851 or was reported that works had been abandoned. Railway Times of 14th June 1851, p 599, reports that a Mr Hodges had applied for and obtained a mandamus against Company for completion of its line of railway.
Strong criticism of a proposal of London and North Western Railway Company to purchase undertaking was voiced in Railway Times in 1853 (see pp 770, 793, 794 and 821) and at the half-yearly meeting of London and North Western Railway Company of 12th August 1853 power was given to directors of latter company to purchase outstanding shares of Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12327/
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