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Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 579
What's it about?
RAIL 579
Minutes of the Reading, Guildford and Reigate 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 579
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Title (The name of the record)
- Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848-1852
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes of the Reading, Guildford and Reigate 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)
- RGR
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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)
- Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Company, 1846-1852
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 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 under act of 16th July 1846.
Company was empowered under Section 50 of act to lease undertaking to South Eastern Railway Company though no powers were directly given to South Eastern Railway Company to accept lease under this Act, but South Eastern Railway Company accepted lease under powers of previous South Eastern Railway Act, 7 and 8 Vic, cap.69, which gave authority for acceptance of lease of any branch railways or any railway communicating with South Eastern Railway Company. Lease was executed by both companies on 15th March 1850.
As from 17th June 1852, entire acquisition of Reading Guildford and Reigate Railway Company was authorised under South Eastern Railway Act of 17th June 1852, by which Act, Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Company was dissolved.
South Eastern Railway Company became part of Southern Railway Company as from 1st January 1923 under Railways (Southern Group) Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 22nd December 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12767/
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Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway Company
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