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Series
Dunstable Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 163
What's it about?
RAIL 163
This series consists of miscellaneous records of the Dunstable Railway Company.
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 163
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Title (The name of the record)
- Dunstable Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845-1846
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous records of the Dunstable Railway Company.
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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)
- DR
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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)
- Dunstable Railway Company, 1845-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 10 files and volumes
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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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Incorporated under Dunstable & London & Birmingham Railway Act of 30th June 1845. By section 25 of act, as soon as railway was completed, it was to be vested in and become absolute property of London & Birmingham Railway Company. London & Birmingham Railway Company together with Grand Junction Railway Company and Manchester & Birmingham Railway Company were consolidated under act of 16th July 1846 to form London & North Western Railway Company which company became vested in London Midland and Scottish Railway as from 1st January 1923 under North Western Midland and West Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme dated 30th December 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12351/
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