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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
Catalogue reference: MPT 1
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MPT 1
This series contains maps, plans and architectural drawings, mainly relating to railway property and lines before nationalisation in 1948, extracted from various records accumulated by the British Transport Commission: RAIL
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPT 1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series of records of the British Transport Commission
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1839-?1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps, plans and architectural drawings, mainly relating to railway property and lines before nationalisation in 1948, extracted from various records accumulated by the British Transport Commission: RAIL
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 portfolio(s)
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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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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1978-1982
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15040/
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