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Series
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 615
What's it about?
RAIL 615
Miscellaneous records of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham 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 615
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Title (The name of the record)
- Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1844-1854
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Description (What the record is about)
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Miscellaneous records of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham 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)
- SHB.
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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)
- Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company, 1846-1854
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 38 papers, flat sheets and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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British Railways Board , since 1988
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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)
- 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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Minutes record preliminary meeting of company to be projected as Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton Railway Company. Subsequent meetings are of Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham Railway Company and prospectuses were issued in that name. (See page 620 and statements of Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton, and Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham railway companies on pages 718-720 of Railway Chronicle of 1844 - PER 10/1.)
Finance Committee minute book records meetings of Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham Railway Company from 12th November 1844 but meetings became headed "Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway" as from March 1845 - page 5.
Company finally became incorporated as Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway Company under Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway Act of 3rd August 1846. This company was amalgamated with Great Western Railway Company as from 1st September 1854 under Great Western, Birmingham & Chester Railways Consolidation Act 7th August 1854.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12803/
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Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company: Records
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