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Series
British Transport Historical Records: Maps, Plans and Surveys of British Railways,...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1031
What's it about?
RAIL 1031
This series is a collection of maps and plans gathered together by the staff who supervised the British Transport Historical Records. It includes maps and plans of railways and canals, many produced by commercial map publishers. These are mainly...
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 1031
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Transport Historical Records: Maps, Plans and Surveys of British Railways, Canals and Inland Waterways. Transferred from MPS 3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1808-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series is a collection of maps and plans gathered together by the staff who supervised the British Transport Historical Records. It includes maps and plans of railways and canals, many produced by commercial map publishers. These are mainly 'general' maps, not maps of individual lines or the lines of a single railway company. Most of them cover relatively large areas and many show the whole of Great Britain or the whole of England and Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The information the catalogue entries for this series was enhanced in 2012 drawing on catalogue descriptions made by the editor Mr P D Roos in the early 1990s.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Many of the series of records of individual companies, as well as those of the Railway Clearing House, committees and commissions etc contain maps and plans. There are also numerous maps of railways among the records of the Ministry of Transport, the Home Office, the War Office, the Welsh Office, and other departments.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- MPS 3
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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)
- British Transport Historical Record Office, 1951-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 122 flat sheets, portfolios, 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 unless otherwise stated
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- This series is one of nine artificially created accumulations of maps, plans and surveys gathered together by the staff who supervised the historical records of the British Transport Commission. Formerly held at the British Transport Historical Records repository at Porchester Road, they were transferred to the custody of the Public Record Office in 1972.
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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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Under the Transport Act 1947 the railways, canals, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were acquired by the State and operated by the British Transport Commission. The Commission was responsible to the Ministry of Transport for general transport policy, which it exercised principally through financial control of executive bodies set up to manage specific sections of the industry under schemes of delegation. Details of these executive bodies are set out in PRO Current Guide part 1, 629/1/1; copies of the Guide are available in the reading rooms at The National Archives.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13203/
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Within the department: RAIL
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