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Series
Great Western Railway Company: Refreshment Rooms and Catering Facilities, Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1181
What's it about?
RAIL 1181
Agreements, plans and other legal documents relating to the provision of refreshment rooms and other catering facilities at railway stations.
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 1181
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Refreshment Rooms and Catering Facilities, Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1862-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agreements, plans and other legal documents relating to the provision of refreshment rooms and other catering facilities at railway stations.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Listed in the miscellaneous series numerical order given to them by the former Great Western Railway Dead Office.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A larger collection of such documentation can be found at the Wiltshire County Record Office at Trowbridge.
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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)
- 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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 63 file(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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13312/
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