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London and North Western Railway Company: Agreements, Conveyances, Contracts and...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 791
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RAIL 791
This series contains various legal documents (some with plans) drawn up between the London and North Western Railway Company and other railway companies, commercial businesses, churches and individuals. It also contains records of scholarships at...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 791
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Title (The name of the record)
- London and North Western Railway Company: Agreements, Conveyances, Contracts and Deeds
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains various legal documents (some with plans) drawn up between the London and North Western Railway Company and other railway companies, commercial businesses, churches and individuals. It also contains records of scholarships at Liverpool University, awarded under trusts set up by company servants, and preliminary absorption schemes under the Railways Act 1921..
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The documents were numbered as they were transferred to the deed room and are therefore in near chronological order.
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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)
- London and North Western Railway Company, 1846-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 615 files, rolls 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 1991 BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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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)
- No further accruals expected
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- A list of abbreviations is filed with the series list
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12979/
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