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Series
East Suffolk Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 182
What's it about?
RAIL 182
This series documents the establishment and administration of the East Suffolk Railway Company.Documents consist of minutes of meetings of Directors, Shareholders and Joint Committees.
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 182
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Title (The name of the record)
- East Suffolk Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1853-1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the East Suffolk Railway Company.
Documents consist of minutes of meetings of Directors, Shareholders and Joint Committees.
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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)
- ESR
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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 Suffolk Railway Company, 1854-1862
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 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 Suffolk Railway Company was incorporated as Halesworth, Beccles & Haddiscoe Railway Company under act of 5th June 1851, and name changed to East Suffolk Railway Company under act of 1854.
Under an act of 7th August 1862 East Suffolk Railway Company was amalgamated with East Anglian; Eastern Counties; Norfolk; and Eastern Union railway companies, with their subsidiary undertakings, to form Great Eastern Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12370/
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