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Series
Great Western Railway Company and British Railways, Western Region: Internal Circulars
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1182
What's it about?
RAIL 1182
Internal circulars from the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, Swindon.
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 1182
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company and British Railways, Western Region: Internal Circulars
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Date (When the record was created)
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1863-1933
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Description (What the record is about)
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Internal circulars from the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, Swindon.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Listed under the names of the departments which issued them and in numerical order within those departments.
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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)
- Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17 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
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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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It should be noted that several series seem to have been issued within a single department at the same time. The first transfer into this series consists of the records of the Chief Mechanical Engineer's Department, Swindon.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13313/
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