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Series
Archivist's Historical Miscellanea
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1005
What's it about?
RAIL 1005
This series originated as a series of personal files of D V Levien of the Great Western Railway (GWR) Secretary's Office and contain a wide range of material relating to railway history. There are a number of files reflecting his personal...
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RAIL 1005
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- Archivist's Historical Miscellanea
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series originated as a series of personal files of D V Levien of the Great Western Railway (GWR) Secretary's Office and contain a wide range of material relating to railway history.
There are a number of files reflecting his personal activities in association with a number of Great Western Railway Company staff clubs, particularly the GWR Lecture and Debating Society.
Most of the files kept by Levien deal with matters of railway history however (some deal with other historical fields) and include correspondence between Levien and railway historians such as Dendy Marshall. The series was used as a basis for filing miscellaneous information about railway history during the period of the British Transport Commission Archives. Many files consist only of press cuttings or typescripts, but there are also many files to which early records of railway companies have been attached.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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GEN 3
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Public Record(s)
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English
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477 file(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13181/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
218,721 records
Within the department: RAIL
Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and...
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