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Series
Exeter Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 203
What's it about?
RAIL 203
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Exeter Railway Company.The documents consist of minutes of various 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 203
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Title (The name of the record)
- Exeter Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1881-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Exeter Railway Company.
The documents consist of minutes of various 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)
- EXE
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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)
- Exeter Railway Company, 1898-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 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 Exeter Railway Company was incorporated as Exeter Teign Valley and Chagford Railway Company under their act of 20th August 1883.
The powers of this Act were revived and name changed to Exeter Railway Company by virtue of act of 12th August 1898.
The company was absorbed into Great Western Railway Company as from 1st July 1923 by Great Western Railway (Exeter Railway) Absorption Scheme 3rd August 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12391/
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