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Series
Midland Counties Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 490
What's it about?
RAIL 490
Miscellaneous records of the Midland Counties 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 490
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Title (The name of the record)
- Midland Counties Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1834 - c1846
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous records of the Midland Counties 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)
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MC
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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)
- Midland Counties Railway Company, 1836-1844
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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29 volume(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
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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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Under act of 10th May 1844 the Birmingham & Derby Junction, the Midland Counties, and the North Midland railway companies were consolidated and incorporated into one Company by the name of the Midland Railway Company.
The Midland Railway Company was amalgamated into the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company under the North Western, Midland and West Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30th December 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12678/
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Midland Counties Railway Company
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