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Series
Easton and Church Hope Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 188
What's it about?
RAIL 188
This series details the establishment and administration of the Easton and Church Hope Railway Company.Documents include minutes, ledgers, plans and other miscellaneous 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 188
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Title (The name of the record)
- Easton and Church Hope Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1867-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series details the establishment and administration of the Easton and Church Hope Railway Company.
Documents include minutes, ledgers, plans 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)
- ECH
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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)
- Easton and Church Hope Railway Company, 1867-1948
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 129 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd , from 1997 , in 2002
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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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 Easton and Church Hope Railway Company was incorporated under act of 25th July 1867 and extended by an act of 1884.
It was worked and maintained by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) under power of an act of 1887. They continued to operate it until 1923 when the LSWR was grouped with the companies into the Southern Railway (SR), the SR then partnering the GWR until 1948. The ECHR was put into the hands of receivers in 1901 and remained so until absorbed by the British Transport Commission in 1948.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12376/
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