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Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and...
Catalogue reference: RAIL
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RAIL
The records in RAIL are those of all private railway companies and private canal companies taken into public ownership by the Transport Act of 1947, together with records which relate to the railway network, and those of associated bodies. They...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and related companies, the London Passenger Transport Board, and successors
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1634-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in RAIL are those of all private railway companies and private canal companies taken into public ownership by the Transport Act of 1947, together with records which relate to the railway network, and those of associated bodies.
They are as follows:
- the records of the Great Western Railway Company (GWR), the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company (LMS), the London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER), and the Southern Railway Company (SR), together with their associated undertakings;
- the records of private canal companies;
- the records of the London Passenger Transport Board, 1933-1947;
- and other railway records, from both private and public sources, relating mainly to the pre-nationalisation period.
These records relate to all administrative and operational aspects of private railway and private canal companies, to the railway network, and to their associated functions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
- Arrangement
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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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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Transport management
- Navy
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C241/
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