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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Sessional Maps
Catalogue reference: RAIL 262
What's it about?
RAIL 262
This series contains maps indicating existing and proposed railway schemes affecting the company as authorised during the course of successive parliamentary sessions.
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 262
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Sessional Maps
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps indicating existing and proposed railway schemes affecting the company as authorised during the course of successive parliamentary sessions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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)
- GW 13
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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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 56 flat sheet(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
- Maps and plans
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12450/
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Great Western Railway Company: Sessional Maps
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