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Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Railway Companies Securities Act,...
Catalogue reference: BT 285
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BT 285
This series contains copies of railway companies' loan capital half yearly accounts. These returns were deposited under the terms of the Railway Companies Securities Act 1866. As well as companies in England, they include companies in Scotland,...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 285
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Companies Registration Office: Railway Companies Securities Act, 1866: Returns
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1866-1931
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains copies of railway companies' loan capital half yearly accounts. These returns were deposited under the terms of the Railway Companies Securities Act 1866. As well as companies in England, they include companies in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Empire which had offices in England and so came within the terms of the Act. The records consist of files arranged numerically by company number.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numerically by company number
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 881 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Trade and commerce
- Ireland
- Banking
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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 Railway Companies Securities Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict c 108) stipulated that every company register at the Office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies the name of their secretary, accountant, treasurer or chief cashier. Each company's loan capital accounts were to be made half yearly and these accounts were to be open to shareholders, stockholders etc.
Deposits ceased after the railways were nationalised and the act was repealed as spent and obsolete by the Transport Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz2 c 46)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3321/
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