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Locomotive Department: Record of Accidents Volume No. 5, listing accidents to staff...
Catalogue reference: RAIL 23/52
What’s it about?
This record is about the Locomotive Department: Record of Accidents Volume No. 5, listing accidents to staff... dating from 1913 Nov-1917 Nov in the series Barry Railway Company. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RAIL 23/52
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Date (When the record was created)
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1913 Nov-1917 Nov
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Description (What the record is about)
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Locomotive Department: Record of Accidents Volume No. 5, listing accidents to staff including drivers, firemen, cleaners, apprentices, labourers, boilermakers, fitters, etc., giving name, date of accident, occupation and foreman's report (which includes the age, rate of pay and address of the accident victim), place of accident, result of accident and, where applicable, details of inquest. (Described at item level).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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Each page within this volume was previously catalogued as a distinct item. In May 2019 this was changed to catalogue each entry within the volume as a separate, arbitrarily-numbered item, in line with the cataloguing of other records of railway accidents.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arranged by date of accident.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Details of these accidents are also given in RAIL 23/57-59: RAIL 23/57 RAIL 23/58 RAIL 23/59
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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BRY15/7
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
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Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Labour
- Railways
- Pay and pensions
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1819639/
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Series information
RAIL 23
Barry Railway Company
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