IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1297/MGCJ
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: METROPOLITAN AND GREAT CENTRAL JOINT RAILWAYS
Date(s): 1889-1948
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.8 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Metropolitan Railway Company
Great Central Railway Company
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Metropolitan Railway Company and the Great Central Railway Company worked together to operate a section of line running between Grendon Underwood and London Marylebone via Aylesbury, Harrow and Amersham.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railways, including minutes of the Joint Committee; minutes of Officers' Conferences; reports and papers of the Oxford and Aylesbury Tramroad Company; plans of the line between Harrow and Verney Junction; and financial records including ledgers, journals and cash books.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/1297/MGCJ/01: Minutes; ACC/1297/MGCJ/03: Plans; ACC/1297/MGCJ/23: Accounts.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1975 as part of an accession of records from London Transport.
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: November 2009 to February 2010