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Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company
Catalogue reference: RAIL 778
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RAIL 778
Plans of the Liverpool (Overhead) Electric 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 778
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Title (The name of the record)
- Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1888-1956]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Plans of the Liverpool (Overhead) Electric 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)
- LOER
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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)
- Liverpool (Overhead) Electric Railway Company, 1888-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 roll(s)
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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 24 July 1888 to take over and exercise, by agreement with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, the powers conferred upon that Board by the Overhead Railway Acts of 1882 and 1887. Line opened for traffic on 6 March 1893. It remained independent until its closure in 1956.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12966/
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