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Series
Bodmin Railway Company: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 1203
What's it about?
RAIL 1203
This series contains records of the Bodmin Railway comprising agreements for construction, maintenance and working.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 1203
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Title (The name of the record)
- Bodmin Railway Company: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1864-1864
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Bodmin Railway comprising agreements for construction, maintenance and working.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Bodmin Railway Company, 1864-1876
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 volume(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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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- Topics
- Railways
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- In custody of the Great Western Railway until 1948.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Economic and social condition of the UK. Records selected illustrate the process of promoting and altering an early railway.
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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 Bodmin, Wadebridge & Cornwall Junction Railway appears to have been incorporated as the Bodmin Railway on 14 July 1864 (27/8 V cap. clxx). It was abandoned on 30 March 1876.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15640/
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