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Series
Warwick and Leamington Union Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 711
What's it about?
RAIL 711
Minutes of the Warwick and Leamington Union 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 711
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Title (The name of the record)
- Warwick and Leamington Union Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839-1845
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes of the Warwick and Leamington Union 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)
- WLU
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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)
- Warwick and Leamington Union Railway Company, 1842-1843
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 files and volumes
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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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Incorporated by act of 18th June 1842. Under London and Birmingham Railway Company's Act of 3rd April 1843, Warwick and Leamington Union Railway Company was transferred to and vested in London and Birmingham Railway. By act of 16th July 1846, London and Birmingham, Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham railway companies were consolidated to form London and North Western Railway Company, which company became vested in London Midland and 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/C12899/
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