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Series
Maps, Plans & Surveys: Railway Clearing House. Transferred from MPS 4
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1032
What's it about?
RAIL 1032
This series consists of Railway Clearing House maps, plans and surveys. It includes several different editions of printed maps and some copper plates from which the maps were printed. These maps and plans maps were held formerly under British...
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 1032
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Title (The name of the record)
- Maps, Plans & Surveys: Railway Clearing House. Transferred from MPS 4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1870-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of Railway Clearing House maps, plans and surveys. It includes several different editions of printed maps and some copper plates from which the maps were printed.
These maps and plans maps were held formerly under British Transport Historical Records (BTHR) references in the series MPS 4
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The information the catalogue entries for this series was enhanced in 2013 drawing on catalogue descriptions made by the editor Mr P D Roos in the early 1990s.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
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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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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- MPS 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 246 flat sheets, rolls and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open 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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- Topics
- Railways
- Maps and plans
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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/C13204/
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