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 Western Railway Company: Litigation against West Bromwich Improvement Commissioners
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1199
What's it about?
RAIL 1199
This series contains records of the Great Western Railway comprising points of argument and queries relating to the company's litigation against West Bromwich Improvement Commissioners.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1199
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Great Western Railway Company: Litigation against West Bromwich Improvement Commissioners
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1858-1859
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains records of the Great Western Railway comprising points of argument and queries relating to the company's litigation against West Bromwich Improvement Commissioners.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Great Western Railway, 1835-1947
-
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 Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
-
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
- Litigation
- Railways
-
Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1859
-
Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15577/
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 1199
Great Western Railway Company: Litigation against West Bromwich Improvement Commissioners
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. -
The story of
Maud Allan
Maud Allan (1873–1956) was a celebrated West End dancer in the early 20th century until she became entangled in one of the most sensational trials of the 1920s.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.