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Series
Minehead Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 493
What's it about?
RAIL 493
This series contains board and shareholders' minutes of meetings, financial information and agreements with the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company as to the operation of the Minehead Railway
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 493
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Title (The name of the record)
- Minehead Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
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1865-1897
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains board and shareholders' minutes of meetings, financial information and agreements with the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company as to the operation of the Minehead Railway
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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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MIN
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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)
- Minehead Railway Company, 1865-1897
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4 files and volumes
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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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This railway was first proposed as the Watchet and Minehead Railway but the former part of the name was dropped when the company was incorporated in the Minehead Railway Act 1865. These authorising powers were allowed to lapse and therefore practically the same promoters were forced to re-incorporate the company by the Minehead Act 1871.
The authorised line ran from a junction with the West Somerset Railway at Watchet (in the parish of St Decumans) to Minehead, it was eight miles and one furlong in length and opened on 16 July 1874. It was leased, from opening, to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, the Great Western Railway (GWR) carried on the leasing arrangement until the Minehead Railway Company was absorbed by the GWR under the powers of the Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1897.
The Minehead Railway was closed by British Railways on 4th January 1971 and was reopened as a private railway by the West Somerset Railway Company Ltd on 28th March 1976. (NB This West Somerset Railway Company should not be confused with the West Somerset Railway mentioned in the above paragraph.)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12681/
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