Catalogue description Great Western Railway Company: Accountants' Records

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Details of RAIL 272
Reference: RAIL 272
Title: Great Western Railway Company: Accountants' Records
Description:

This series contains records of the accountant of the Great Western Railway Company.

Documents include accounting ledgers, journals, etc of the company both pre- and post-grouping, including records of the Kennet and Avon Canal, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Railways, the Birmingham and Oxford Railway, and monthly summaries of locomotive and rolling stock construction, repair and operation.

Date: 1833-1952
Related material:

For Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation Company's records see: RAIL 842

Separated material:

For ledgers of expenditure on new and improved works Nos 19-28 (dated 1936-1961), see AN 165/1-10.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: GW 23
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947

Physical description: 301 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

1972-2003 British Railways Board

Accruals: Series is not accruing

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