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Taff Vale Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 684
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RAIL 684
Committee minutes and reports, staff records, locomotive and rolling stock records, specifications and tenders for buildings and rolling stock, agreements, plans and indemnities from blind passengers
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 684
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Title (The name of the record)
- Taff Vale Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1823-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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Committee minutes and reports, staff records, locomotive and rolling stock records, specifications and tenders for buildings and rolling stock, agreements, plans and indemnities from blind passengers
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Taff Vale Railway Company, 1836-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 346 bundles, files and volumes
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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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From 1977 Taff Vale Railway Company
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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
- Disability
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 by Taff Vale Railway Act 21st June 1836, and amalgamated with Great Western Railway as from 1 January 1922 under Railways Act 19th August 1921.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12872/
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