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Series
Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 472
What's it about?
RAIL 472
This series consists of stock and share registers and minutes of the Maryport and Carlisle 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)
- RAIL 472
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Title (The name of the record)
- Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of stock and share registers and minutes of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company.
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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)
- MAC
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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)
- Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, 1837-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 129 files, rolls and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected
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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 act of 12th July 1837.
Under the Maryport & Carlisle Railway Act 26th June 1855 the company was dissolved and re-incorporated by the same name.
The Maryport & Carlisle Railway Company was merged into the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company as from 1st January 1923 under the London Midland & Scottish Railway Preliminary Absorption Scheme 1923 dated 3rd April 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12660/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
218,721 records
Within the department: RAIL
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Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company: Records
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