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16 items (enclosures with Captain Robinson's final Report of 31 August 1848 on the...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/401
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This record is about the 16 items (enclosures with Captain Robinson's final Report of 31 August 1848 on the... dating from 1848 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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16 items (enclosures with Captain Robinson's final Report of 31 August 1848 on the proposed railway) extracted from CO 42/556 . Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec. 16 sheets of plans of the proposed Halifax to Quebec railway, each with a section showing heights and gradients. Scale: 1 inch to a mile (horizontal); 1 inch to 200 feet (vertical). Compass indicator on each sheet. Signed by William Robinson and E Y W Henderson, Captains RE, 31 August 1848. Most of the sheets measure about 49.5 cm x 95.3 cm.
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1112
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