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Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1176
What's it about?
RAIL 1176
Agreements, deeds and contracts for the broad gauge railway between Lostwithiel and Fowey, Cornwall
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 1176
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1861-1894
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agreements, deeds and contracts for the broad gauge railway between Lostwithiel and Fowey, Cornwall
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
in former reference order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Company, 1862-1895
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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10 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1988 British Railways Board
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals expected
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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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This company was created by the Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Act 1862, which authorised the construction of a broad gauge railway between the two places.
The railway was opened on 1 June 1869 and was 4.75 miles long. It was worked by the Cornwall Joint Committee as a branch of the Cornwall Railway Company until it closed on 31 December 1879. After this, the line lay derelict until the Cornwall Minerals Railway Company was able (as a result of an injection of funds from the Great Western Railway) to take over the Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Company on 27th June 1892. The line was re-opened as a standard gauge branch line of the Great Western in September 1895. The Cornwall Minerals was subsequently vested in the Great Western on 1 July 1896.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13307/
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Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway Company: Records
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