Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Co

This page summarises records created by this Business

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1834-1986
Places:	Shropshire Shropshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Transport and communications > Railways \| Transport and communications > Port and inland water transport
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C106462 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B12485 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1834-1948: board, committee and proprietors minutes, contracts and plans, records of rents and tolls, staff book and register	The National Archives	RAIL 618-19, 623
2	c1840-1972: prospectus, papers, minutes, corresp, leases, agreements, rent register and rolls, plans, etc	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield	C299	NRA 24888 British Waterways
3	1845-63: account book, corresp	Shropshire Archives		NRA 11563 Shropshire See Accessions Oct-Dec 1960
4	1848-1852: register of creditors	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	London Midland and Scottish Railway Co	NRA 36427 LMS
5	1855-1857: abstract of journal of mechanics time (list of employees, days worked and wages received)	Shropshire Archives	5687	NRA 11563 Shropshire
6	1880-1945: staff ledgers for Norbury district	National Waterways Archive	2012/24
7	1885-87: corresp on pig iron traffic	Cheshire Archives and Local Studies		See Accessions to Repositories 1972
8	1886-1986: maps, plans and misc papers	Shropshire Archives	5465	NRA 33110
9	1889-1925: import and export books, Edstaston Wharf	Shropshire Archives	X6001/54	NRA 19299
10	c1900-1925: photographs of boatyards and shipwrights at Ellesmere Port and Chester	National Waterways Archive	CRT/DOD	See Annual Return 2015
11	1914-1918: staff recruitment lists	National Waterways Archive	BW152/22/2	See Annual Return 2016
12	1842-1863: corresp and drawings rel to disputed responsibility for the clearing of drain, Marbury Brook at Willymore, Cheshire	National Waterways Archive	CRT/BMT/54	See Annual Return 2018