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Series
East Anglian Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 171
What's it about?
RAIL 171
This series documents the establishment and administration of The East Anglian Railway Company.Documents consist of minutes of meetings as well as a ledger and journal.
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 171
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Title (The name of the record)
- East Anglian Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1851-1862
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of The East Anglian Railway Company.
Documents consist of minutes of meetings as well as a ledger and journal.
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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)
- EAR
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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)
- East Anglian Railway Company, 1847-1862
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 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 East Anglian Railway Company was incorporated under an of act 11th Vic, cap.275 (1847) as an amalgamation of the Lynn and Ely, Lynn and Dereham and ELy and Huntingdon railway companies, all of which had been founded in 1845.
The Eastern Counties Railway Company entered into possession of line under powers conferred by Act 15 Vic, cap.108, 17th June 1852, which also contained powers, under certain conditions, for leasing of East Anglian Railway Company to them, but under act of 7th August 1862, East Anglian Railway Company was amalgamated with Eastern Counties; Norfolk, Eastern Union, and East Suffolk railway companies and their subsidiary undertakings to form Great Eastern Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12359/
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