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'(Old) Calabar Railway Survey ...'. 4 sheets of maps and plans. (5) Map of Southern...
Catalogue reference: MPGG 1/41/5-8
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This record is about the '(Old) Calabar Railway Survey ...'. 4 sheets of maps and plans. (5) Map of Southern... dating from 1904 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPGG 1/41/5-8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904
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Description (What the record is about)
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'(Old) Calabar Railway Survey ...'. 4 sheets of maps and plans. (5) Map of Southern Nigeria, and parts of Lagos Colony, Northern Nigeria, Cameroon and Dahomey (now Benin), showing rivers, major towns, the Lagos railway, and a proposed new railway line from Calabar to Nsan. Scale: 1 inch to 30 miles [1:1,900,800]. (6) Map of the area between the Cross River and the boundary between Southern Nigeria and Cameroon, showing other rivers, towns and the proposed new railway. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles [1:506,880]. (7) Plan of Calabar (now in Cross River State, Nigeria) showing the proposed line and the planned sites of the station and sidings. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile [1:5,280]. (8) Sheet bearing a plan and horizontal section of the proposed route. Plan to scale, and section to horizontal scale: 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]; section to vertical scale: 1 inch to 200 feet [1:2,400]. Compass indicators to magnetic north to all items. Photoprinted by Miss A West and Partners, Broadway Chambers. Dimensions: (5-6, 8) each 28 cm x 48 cm; (7) 28 cm x 49 cm. Originally accompanying a report by Messrs Baker and Shelford, 7 December 1904.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Photoprinted, on linen
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 2018 (items 5-6, 8), 2086 (item 7).
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8972078/
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