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Grand Junction Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 220
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RAIL 220
This series documents the establishment and administration of the Grand Junction Railway Company.Documents include minutes of board and committee meetings, contracts, specifications and plans for construction of the line, records about...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 220
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Title (The name of the record)
- Grand Junction Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1833-1856
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series documents the establishment and administration of the Grand Junction Railway Company.
Documents include minutes of board and committee meetings, contracts, specifications and plans for construction of the line, records about locomotives and traffic and other agreements.
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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)
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GJR
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Grand Junction Railway Company, 1833-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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57 files, rolls and volumes
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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 Grand Junction Railway Company was incorporated by act of 6 May 1833, same date as London and Birmingham Railway Company.
By act of 16 July 1846, these companies, and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company, were amalgamated to form London and North Western Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12408/
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