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Series
Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 574
What's it about?
RAIL 574
Minutes, agreements and mortgages of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks 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 574
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Title (The name of the record)
- Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1883-1936
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, agreements and mortgages of the Port Talbot Railway and Docks 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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PTR
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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)
- Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company, 1894-1922
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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116 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd , from 1991, in 2002
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals expected
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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 31st July 1894. Company was absorbed into Great Western Railway Company as from 1st January 1922 under Great Western Railway (Western Group) Preliminary Absorption Scheme (No.1) 9th May 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12762/
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