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Series
Newmarket Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 512
What's it about?
RAIL 512
Contracts of the Newmarket 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 512
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Title (The name of the record)
- Newmarket Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1852-1853
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contracts of the Newmarket 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)
- NKR
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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)
- Newmarket Railway Company, 1846-1892
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 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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Incorporated as the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway Company by act of 16th July 1846 (9 & 10 Vic, cap.172). By company's act of 1847 (cap.20, section XXI), its name was changed to Newmarket Railway.
Newmarket Railway Company was amalgamated, with other railway companies, to form the Great Eastern Railway Company by act of 7th August 1862 (25 & 26 Vic, cap.223). The Great Eastern Railway Company was vested in the London & North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st January 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12700/
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