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Public Utility Plans

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Q/RUm
Title
Public Utility Plans
Description

Catalogued by Susan Munt, 1972 - 1974.

Railway schemes for which there are no deposited plans in Cambs. R.O.:

- Cambridge to St. Ives and Huntingdon, opened 17 August 1847.

- Chesterford to Newmarket, opened 1 February 1848 (but N.B. L91/1 plan and sections for this line with branch to Cambridge, November 1845, which is not receipted by Clerk of the Peace).

Held by
Cambridgeshire Archives
Language
English
Immediate source of acquisition

Plans of Public Utility Undertakings, deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of Cambridgeshire, 1826 - 1969.

Administrative / biographical background

Public Undertakings

In connection with Parliamentary Bills for schemes of the kind now termed public utility undertakings, the standing Orders of the House of Lords (1843) required the deposit with the Clerk of the Peace, of a plan, and also a duplicate of such plan together with a book of reference. Promoters of railway bills had to deposit additional plans of deviations from original lines and when renewing any application to Parliament. Plans and books of reference were deposited from the earliest date (not in duplicate until 1838), also sections from 1812.

Publication note(s)
<span class="wrapper"><p>Books available in County Record Office Library, Cambridge</p> <p>A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol V. Great Britain by D.I. Gordon. 1968</p> <p>The Great Eastern Railway by Cecil J. Allen. 1956</p> <p>The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway by A.J. Wrottesley. 1970</p> <p>Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire, Vol. II p. 132. Map of Cambridgeshire Railways with date of construction.</p> <p>Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings.</p> <p>- Vol. XLII, 1948 Railways to Cambridge, actual and projected. A Centenary Review by Canon R.B. Fellows.</p> <p>- Vol. XXXI, 1931 A Derelict Railway, being a history of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway by K. Brown.</p> <p>Barrington Light Railway by Thomas B. Peacock 1960</p> <p>C.S.I.A. Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 3 St. Ives Branch Closure by Anthony Kirby.</p> <p>The Water Supply of Cambridge by Tressilian C. Nicholas.</p> <p>The Tramways of East Anglia by R.C. Anderson 1969</p> <p>Cambridge Street Tramways (Locomotion Papers No. 61) S.L. Swingle.</p> <p>Wisbech and Upwell Tramway by E.J.S. Gadsden, C.F.D. Whetmath and J. Stafford Baker. 1966</p> <p>The Draining of the Fens by H.C. Darby.</p> <p>History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood 1848-1898 by Frederic J. Gardiner.</p> <p>Bradshaw's Railway Guide [timetables] August 1887.</p> <p>Great Eastern Journal no 13 (Jan 1978) with article on Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Committee</p> <p>Cruchley's Railway and Station Map of Cambridgeshire [c. 1860]</p> <p>British Railways (Eastern Region), Timetables 1954, 1964-5</p> <p>Map of Great Northern Railway Lines</p> <p>Railway History in English Local Records by Jack Simmons, (offprint from Jnl of Transport History, 1954)</p> <p>I tried to run a Railway by G.F. Fiennes 1967</p> <p>Forgotten Railways: East Anglia by R.S. Joby 1977</p> <p>The Last Days of Steam in Cambridgeshire by E. Sawford, 1990</p> <p>Fenland Railwayman by Arthur Randell, 1968</p> <p>Branch lines around Huntingdon; Kettering to Cambridge, by V Mitchell &amp; others, 1991</p> <p>By Rail to Mildenhall the Cambridge to Mildenhall Railway by Peter Turner, 1978</p></span>
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Public Utility Plans