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Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 552
What's it about?
RAIL 552
Miscellaneous records of the Oswestry and Newtown 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 552
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Title (The name of the record)
- Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1865
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous records of the Oswestry and Newtown 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)
- OSN
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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)
- Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company, 1855-1864
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 24 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 by Oswestry and Newtown Railway Act 26th June 1855.
Earliest Share Registers and Minute Books record name as "Oswestry Welshpool and Newtown Railway Company," but Act of Incorporation, though cited therein as "Oswestry Welchpool and Newtown Railway Act 1855," sets forth that Company shall be incorporated by name of "Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company," and at first meeting of Directors on 30th June 1855 after passing of act, new name is recorded.
By Cambrian Railways Act 25th July 1864, company together with (1) Oswestry Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway Company, (2) Llandiloes and Newtown Railway Company, and (3) Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Company, was dissolved and constituted one undertaking by name of Cambrian Railways, which was amalgamated with Great Western Railway as from 1st January 1923 by virtue of Railways Act 19th August 1921.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12740/
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