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Flat maps from RAIL classes
Catalogue reference: MPR
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MPR
This was an artificial accumulation created by the Public Record Office (PRO) in the 1960s to cater for maps, plans and drawings extracted to flat storage from records of the British Transport Commission (RAIL) following transfer to the PRO. The...
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MPR
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- Flat maps from RAIL classes
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Description (What the record is about)
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This was an artificial accumulation created by the Public Record Office (PRO) in the 1960s to cater for maps, plans and drawings extracted to flat storage from records of the British Transport Commission (RAIL) following transfer to the PRO. The maps concerned were all transferred subsequently to the map extract prefix MPT, now series MPT 1
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English
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C329/
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