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Series
Southern Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 647
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RAIL 647
This series contains deeds, agreements, contracts, specifications, estimates, plans, absorption schemes and other records of the Southern Railway Company. It concludes with a section dealing with post Second World War planning, particularly...
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 647
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Title (The name of the record)
- Southern Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1908-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains deeds, agreements, contracts, specifications, estimates, plans, absorption schemes and other records of the Southern Railway Company.
It concludes with a section dealing with post Second World War planning, particularly aspects of the reconstruction and development of London of relevance to Southern Railways. This section includes some files from the 1950s, when the Southern Railway Company had become Southern Region (RAIL 647/93-96).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later documents see AN 151
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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)
- SOU 3
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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)
- Southern Railway Company, 1923-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 96 files, papers and rolls
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1972-2004 British Railways Board
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12835/
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