DUNABURG AND WITEPSK RAILWAY COMPANY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/071
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DUNABURG AND WITEPSK RAILWAY COMPANY
Date(s)	: 1880-1894
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 3 volumes.
Name of creator(s)	: Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway Co x Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Co Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company was formed in 1863 to carry out a concession from the Russian government; first registered on the Stock Exchange on 2 June 1863; and its name changed in 1893 to the Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Company Limited. It went into voluntary liquidation on 21 May 1894 after acquisition by the Russian government - shareholders received cash or Russian government bonds.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter books of the Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway Company, later known as the Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Company Limited.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Volumes in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

These letter books were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1982 together with archives of Antony Gibbs and Sons, but no connection with Gibbs has been established. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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 2010 to January 2011.