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Series
Great Western Railway: Working Timetables
Catalogue reference: RAIL 937
What's it about?
RAIL 937
This series consists of Great Western Railway working timetables.
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 937
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway: Working Timetables
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1863-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of Great Western Railway working timetables.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From 1940 to 1945 the timetables were issued in two parts: one for freight trains (shown in the list as 'F'), and the other for passenger, mail, parcels, newspaper, milk and perishables trains (P etc.). From the 6 May 1946 issue they reverted to their original form of one volume for all traffic.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Passenger train alterations and abstracts of working time of the Great Western Railway Company are in RAIL 271
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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)
- TT 4
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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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 197 volume(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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13125/
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Great Western Railway: Working Timetables
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