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Series
Shropshire Railways Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 622
What's it about?
RAIL 622
This series contains records of the Shropshire Railways Company and includes minutes of meetings and shareholding records.
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 622
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Title (The name of the record)
- Shropshire Railways Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1888-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Shropshire Railways Company and includes minutes of meetings and shareholding records.
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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)
- SHP
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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)
- Shropshire Railways Company, 1862-1864
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Incorporated under West Shropshire Mineral Railway Act of 29th July 1862. Name changed to Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company by Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Act of 1864. Amalgamated with Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Railway as Potteries Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway by Potteries Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Act 1866.
By Order of Chancery Division of High Court of Justice made 21st April 1882, said Potteries Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company was ordered to be wound up and Official Liquidator of Company was appointed on or about 8th July 1882. By Shropshire Railways Act 7th August 1888 Shropshire Railways Company was incorporated for acquirement of Potteries Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway Company.
Under Light Railways Act of 1896 an order known as Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway Order February 1909 was obtained by Shropshire Railways Company authorising reconstruction and working of certain parts of Railway and works of that Company (see Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway Company). Shropshire Railways Company was for many years in Receiver's hands, and under Transport Act 1947 it passed to British Transport Commission.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12810/
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Shropshire Railways Company
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