Catalogue description Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company: Records

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Reference: RAIL 615
Title: Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company: Records
Description:

Miscellaneous records of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company.
Date: 1844-1854
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SHB.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company, 1846-1854
Physical description: 38 papers, flat sheets and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

British Railways Board , since 1988
Accruals: No further accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

Minutes record preliminary meeting of company to be projected as Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton Railway Company. Subsequent meetings are of Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham Railway Company and prospectuses were issued in that name. (See page 620 and statements of Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton, and Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham railway companies on pages 718-720 of Railway Chronicle of 1844 - PER 10/1.)

Finance Committee minute book records meetings of Shrewsbury Wolverhampton Dudley & Birmingham Railway Company from 12th November 1844 but meetings became headed "Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway" as from March 1845 - page 5.

Company finally became incorporated as Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway Company under Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway Act of 3rd August 1846. This company was amalgamated with Great Western Railway Company as from 1st September 1854 under Great Western, Birmingham & Chester Railways Consolidation Act 7th August 1854.

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