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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Signal and Telegraph Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 282
What's it about?
RAIL 282
This series contains a collection of signalling diagrams.
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 282
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Signal and Telegraph Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1918-1949
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a collection of signalling diagrams.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
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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 33
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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)
- 1619 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Communications
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- In the standard paper list set, pieces have been listed in two ways. In part 1, the diagrams are listed by administrative areas following main lines of communication and branches and in part 2, the diagrams have been relisted in alphabetical order.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12470/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: RAIL
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Great Western Railway Company: Signal and Telegraph Records
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