Record revealed
Three wooden wheel models used as court exhibits
These Victorian railway wheel models demonstrate the diverse, and often unexpected, character of exhibits preserved in court records at The National Archives.
Series
Parliamentary: Bills and Minutes of Evidence: Other than Railways and Canals
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1068
What's it about?
RAIL 1068
This series includes a wide variety of subjects e.g. tramways, docks, bridges, electric lighting, street widening, etc. involving improvements to local amenities.
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 1068
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Title (The name of the record)
- Parliamentary: Bills and Minutes of Evidence: Other than Railways and Canals
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1946
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series includes a wide variety of subjects e.g. tramways, docks, bridges, electric lighting, street widening, etc. involving improvements to local amenities.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order of places affected by such proposals, and in some cases subjects interspersed between.
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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)
- PYB 2
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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)
- 311 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
- Transport management
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13227/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: RAIL
Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and...
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Parliamentary: Bills and Minutes of Evidence: Other than Railways and Canals
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