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Series
Swansea Vale Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 679
What's it about?
RAIL 679
This series includes minutes of Board and general meetings, accountants' records and petitions against the Swansea Vale Railway Bill.
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 679
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Title (The name of the record)
- Swansea Vale Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1841-1876
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes minutes of Board and general meetings, accountants' records and petitions against the Swansea Vale Railway Bill.
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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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SVR. See also RAIL 790.
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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)
- Swansea Vale Railway Company, 1855-1864
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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73 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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Established in 1845 by virtue of Registration &c. of Joint Stock companies Act of that year, and became completely registered in January 1850. Bradshaw's Manual for 1923 (page 242) recites that Swansea Vale Railway Company was originally a registered company formed in January 1850 to acquire Swansea Valley Railway Company, q.v. Swansea Vale Railway Company was incorporated under act of 15th June 1855 to convert Company from registered company into one acting under authority of Parliament and was leased by Midland Railway Company under act of 1874 and vested in Midland Railway Company under act of 11th August 1876. Midland Railway Company was vested in London Midland & Scottish Railway Company as from 1st January 1923 under North Western, Midland and West Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30th December 1922.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12867/
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