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Series
London and Birmingham Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 384
What's it about?
RAIL 384
This series consists of miscellaneous records of the London and Birmingham Railway Company.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 384
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Title (The name of the record)
- London and Birmingham Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1830-1863
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of miscellaneous records of the London and Birmingham Railway Company.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The Appendix to this series, a detailed list of the most important letters in Rail 384/276-278 and 280-282, can be found with the standard list set.
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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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LBM
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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)
- London and Birmingham Railway Company, 1833-1846
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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419 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Incorporated by London & Birmingham Railway Act, 6 May 1833, a further Act authorising extension from Camden to Euston Grove was obtained 3 July 1835.
The company was empowered to enlarge its stations at Euston by an act of 16 July 1846 and by an act of the same date this company, the Grand Junction, and the Manchester & Birmingham railway companies were consolidated to form the London & North Western Railway Company, which company became vested in the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company as from 1 January 1923 under the North Western, Midland and West Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30 December 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12572/
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