Record revealed
Three wooden wheel models used as court exhibits
These Victorian railway wheel models demonstrate the diverse, and often unexpected, character of exhibits preserved in court records at The National Archives.
Series
Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1189
What's it about?
RAIL 1189
This series consists of correspondence files dealing with the purchase of land required for new railways or the widening of existing railways, the disposal of surplus land, licensing of land and property to and by the company, enquiries from...
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1189
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1871-1924
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series consists of correspondence files dealing with the purchase of land required for new railways or the widening of existing railways, the disposal of surplus land, licensing of land and property to and by the company, enquiries from people and organisations outside the company concerning proposed purchases and sales of land and property, the crossing of the company's land by utility pipes and cables, housing for staff and relocated residents, maintenance of property, roads and paths, compensation paid to owners, lessees, tenants and residents affected by railway works. The series includes records of work at joint stations including Holbeach (Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway) and Nottingham (Victoria) Joint Station.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
-
Arrangement
Numerical order according to Great Northern Railways reference
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Great Northern Railway Company, 1846-1923
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1992 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
British Railways Board
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Conveyancing
- Railways
-
Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred from the Great Northern Railway Company to the London and North Eastern Railway Company in 1923, then to the British Transport Commission in 1948, then to the British Railways Board in 1963.
-
Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The Great Northern Railway was formed by the merging of the Direct Northern Railway Company and the London and York Railway Company, the merger was confirmed by the Great Northern Railway Act in 1846.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13320/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
218,721 records
Within the department: RAIL
Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and...
You are currently looking at the series: RAIL 1189
Great Northern Railway Company: Surveyor and Estate Agent: Correspondence Files
You may be interested in
-
-
Record revealed
Accident register for the North Eastern Railway Company
These record books reveal the substantial dangers to passengers – and for those operating trains – in the first decades that public railways existed. -
Record revealed
List of animals held in the ‘Bear Garden’ in Elizabethan Southwark
This deed reveals some of the animals kept to perform on the Tudor stage or in arenas. It includes ‘an old she bear called Nan’, some bulls, a horse and an ape.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.