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RAILWAYS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0469

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: RAILWAYS

Date(s): 1845-1908

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.07 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Northern and Southern Railway
Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

There is no unifying factor to these papers (e.g. that they relate to property owned by one estate or family or the legal work of one office), they were simply collected for their antiquarian interest before being passed to the archive.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Plans for the Northern and Southern Railway from Staines to Uxbridge and Harefield, 1845; plans for a projected railway through Acton, Old Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Stanwell and Staines, Isleworth and Twickenham; book of reference of the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway, 1847. Also assorted sales catalogues for live and dead stock, farm stock, growing crops, corn, furniture, bricks, 1850-1908.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0469-1: Sales catalogues; ACC/0469-2: Plans; ACC/0469-3: Book of Reference.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records donated to the Archive in June 1952.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Maps | Visual materials
Plans | Visual materials
Railway construction | Construction industry | Industry
Railway infrastructure | Transport infrastructure
Railway lines | Railways | Transport infrastructure
Sales catalogues | Auction particulars | Documents | Information sources

Personal names

Corporate names
Northern and Southern Railway
Windsor | Staines and South Western Railway

Places
Acton | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Bedfont | Hounslow | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Brentford | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Harefield | Hillingdon | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hounslow (district) | Hounslow | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Isleworth | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Staines | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Stanwell | Surrey | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Twickenham | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Uxbridge | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ealing
Richmond upon Thames