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Southern Railway Company: General Manager's Office: Files
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1188
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RAIL 1188
This series consists of files of the Southern Railway Company's General Manager's Office. The records relate to all aspects of railway management, from items prepared for Board approval to relatively minor matters. Subjects include; railway...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1188
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Title (The name of the record)
- Southern Railway Company: General Manager's Office: Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1923-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files of the Southern Railway Company's General Manager's Office. The records relate to all aspects of railway management, from items prepared for Board approval to relatively minor matters. Subjects include; railway electrification, road transport, arrangements with the Pullman Car Company, the Standing Joint Committee of the London Passenger Transport Board and the main line companies and the Railway Control Agreements of the Second World War.
This series covers the whole period of the Southern Railway under its four general managers, Sir Herbert Walker, Gilbert Szlumper, Sir Eustace Missenden and Sir John Elliot.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former company reference order
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- Southern Railway Company, 1923-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 377 files, papers and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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In 1999-2003 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13319/
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