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Series
East Lincolnshire Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 177
What's it about?
RAIL 177
This series documents the establishment and administration of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company.Documents include minutes, stocks and shares records, contracts and agreements and accounts records.
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 177
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Title (The name of the record)
- East Lincolnshire Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1844-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company.
Documents include minutes, stocks and shares records, contracts and agreements and accounts records.
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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)
- ELI
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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 Lincolnshire Railway Company, 1846-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 28 files, papers 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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The East Lincolnshire Railway Company was incorporated under act of 26 July 1846.
By an act of 1847, line was leased in perpetuity to Great Northern Railway Company at a fixed rental from 1 October 1848, the lease being dated 21 February 1848. The company was transferred to and absorbed by London and North Eastern Railway Company from 1 January 1923 under London & North Eastern Railway Absorption (No.1) Scheme 1923, dated 29 June 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12365/
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