Catalogue description Newmarket Railway Company

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Reference: RAIL 512
Title: Newmarket Railway Company
Description:

Contracts of the Newmarket Railway Company.
Date: 1852-1853
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NKR
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Newmarket Railway Company, 1846-1892
Physical description: 2 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated as the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway Company by act of 16th July 1846 (9 & 10 Vic, cap.172). By company's act of 1847 (cap.20, section XXI), its name was changed to Newmarket Railway.

Newmarket Railway Company was amalgamated, with other railway companies, to form the Great Eastern Railway Company by act of 7th August 1862 (25 & 26 Vic, cap.223). The Great Eastern Railway Company was vested in the London & North Eastern Railway Company as from 1st January 1923.

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