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Eastern Counties Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 186
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RAIL 186
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Eastern Counties Railway Company.Documents include minutes and reports, plans, accounts, rolling stock records and other miscellaneous records.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 186
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Title (The name of the record)
- Eastern Counties Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835-1901
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Eastern Counties Railway Company.
Documents include minutes and reports, plans, accounts, rolling stock records and other miscellaneous 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)
- EC
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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)
- Eastern Counties Railway Company, 1836-1862
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 111 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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Originally called the Grand Eastern Counties Railway, the Eastern Counties Railway Company was incorporated by Act 4th July, 1836.
By Amalgamation Act of 7th August 1862, Eastern Counties, Norfolk, Eastern Union, East Anglian, East Suffolk, and other subsidiary undertakings in connection therewith, were amalgamated to form Great Eastern Railway Company. Details of amalgamation are printed on page 3 of appendix to Bradshaw's manual for 1863.
Great Eastern Railway Company became one of constituent companies of London and North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st January 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12374/
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