IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1130
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Forth Bridge Railway Company
Date(s): 1899-1927
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Forth Bridge Railway Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Forth Bridge Railway Company was set up in 1873 with the aim of building a bridge across the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, thereby extending the Scottish railway system north from Edinburgh. The Forth Bridge Railway Company (though it was part of the LNER network) legally survived in name until it was absorbed by the British Transport Commission in 1948 in the aftermath of the nationalisation of the railways.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
The Forth Bridge Railway Company: Letter to Challinor and Company, solicitors, 1899; interest warrants, 1913-1927.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file only.
Conditions governing access:
Open for research.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
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Collection-level description
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Transferred from Senate House Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Senate House Library
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
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: 2006-11-08, Richard Temple