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Proposed Northleach and Witney Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1185
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RAIL 1185
Objections to the company's parliamentary bill, which failed to pass, and minutes of House of Commons select committee proceedings.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 1185
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Title (The name of the record)
- Proposed Northleach and Witney Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1860
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Description (What the record is about)
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Objections to the company's parliamentary bill, which failed to pass, and minutes of House of Commons select committee proceedings.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers have no former reference numbers and are listed in chronological order.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Northleach and Witney Railway Company
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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4 file(s)
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- Topics
- Litigation
- 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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The Northleach and Witney Railway was proposed to commence at a junction with the proposed Cheltenham and Northleach Railway at a road between Northleach and Stow near Polly Farm, Glos and to follow a route via Signett, Brize Norton and Curbridge, terminating at a junction with the authorised Witney Railway at Coggs Brook in the parish of Witney, Oxon. The railway's promoters deposited a bill in parliament but it met with objections and failed in the committee stage.
The papers probably originate from the main petitioner against that bill, the Great Western Railway Company.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13316/
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