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London Metropolitan Archives

METROPOLITAN AND GREAT CENTRAL JOINT RAILWAYS


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Public transport | Transport
Transport companies | Companies | Enterprises
Transport organizations | Organizations
Underground railway networks | Railways | Transport infrastructure
Urban transport | Transport
Urban transport development | Transport planning | Transport
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Great Central Railway Company
Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
Metropolitan Railway Company

Places
Amersham | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Grendon Underwood | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Harrow (district) | Harrow | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London