Catalogue description Ashburton, Newton and South Devon Junction Railway Company

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Reference: RAIL 10
Title: Ashburton, Newton and South Devon Junction Railway Company
Description:

This series documents the establishment and administration of the Ashburton, Newton and South Devon Junction Railway Company, and the construction of relevant railway track.

Records include minutes of provisional directors meetings and of public meetings, a prospectus of the company and correspondence.
Date: 1845-1851
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ASD
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Ashburton, Newton and South Devon Junction Railway Company, 1847-1849
Physical description: 2 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

The Ashburton, Newton and South Devon Junction Railway Company was incorporated on 27th July 1846, and leased to the South Devon Railway Company in 1847 for 7 years. The company was established to construct railway lines in and around Ashburton and Newton in south Devon.

Owing to depression in trade, at the half-yearly meeting of 31st December, 1849 it was decided to vest the powers of dissolution in the company's shareholders.

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