Catalogue description Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company

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Reference: RAIL 441
Title: Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company
Description:

Miscellaneous books and records and minutes of the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company.

Date: 1845-1864
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LRH
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company, 1856-1858

Physical description: 5 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated under act of 1845 (8 and 9 Vic, cap.45). By Act 9 and 10 Vic, cap.132 (1846), company became leased to Norfolk Railway Company in perpetuity. By act of 7th August 1862, Norfolk Railway Company was amalgamated with East Anglian Railway Company; Eastern Counties Railway Company; Eastern Union Railway Company; and East Suffolk Railway Company, with their subsidiary undertakings, to form Great Eastern Railway Company. Great Eastern Railway Company became part of London and North Eastern Railway Company from 1st January 1923 under North Eastern, Eastern and East Scottish Group Amalgamation Scheme 1922 dated 30th December 1922.

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