Catalogue description East Kent Light Railway Company

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Reference: RAIL 175
Title: East Kent Light Railway Company
Description:

This series documents the establishment and administration of the East Kent Light Railway Company.

Documents include minutes and agendas, deeds and agreements, reports and accounts and miscellaneous files of newspaper cuttings, letters etc.

Date: 1911-1949
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EKL
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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East Kent Light Railway Company, 1911-1947

Physical description: 41 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The East Kent Light Railway Company was incorporated on the 19th June 1911 under The East Kent Light Railway Order 1911 made under the Light Railways Act of 1896.

The East Kent Light Railway passed to the British Transport Commission under the Transport Act 1947.

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