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Series
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 500
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RAIL 500
This series includes minutes of meetings, shareholder records, locomotive and rolling stock records, petitions and memorials, accountants' records, contracts, agreements and correspondence.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 500
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Title (The name of the record)
- Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1792-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes minutes of meetings, shareholder records, locomotive and rolling stock records, petitions and memorials, accountants' records, contracts, agreements and correspondence.
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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)
- MNRC
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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)
- Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, 1792-1880
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 375 files, rolls 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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Incorporated by act of 3rd June 1792 (32 Geo 3, cap.102) as "The Company of Proprietors of the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation".
By the Newport & Pontypool Railway Act of 31st July 1845 (8 & 9 Vic, cap.169) the Canal Navigation Company was authorised to make a railway from Newport to Pontypool. An Act of 13th August 1846 (9 & 10 Vic, cap.371) recited that this railway had not yet been made and provided for certain branch railways to be connected with it and for incorporation of a new company to be called the Monmouthshire Railway Company. Power was given for this new company to purchase the Monmouthshire Canal Company but was not exercised, for under Act 11 & 12 Vic, cap.120 (14th August 1848) certain provisions of the Act of 31st July 1845 above mentioned were amended and extended, and the name of the Canal Navigation Company was changed to "The Monmouthshire Railway & Canal Company".
This latter company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway Company as from 1st August 1880 under the Great Western Monmouthshire Railway Company's Amalgamation Act 2nd August 1880.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12688/
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