Catalogue description Southern Railway Company: Records

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Details of RAIL 647
Reference: RAIL 647
Title: Southern Railway Company: Records
Description:

This series contains deeds, agreements, contracts, specifications, estimates, plans, absorption schemes and other records of the Southern Railway Company.

It concludes with a section dealing with post Second World War planning, particularly aspects of the reconstruction and development of London of relevance to Southern Railways. This section includes some files from the 1950s, when the Southern Railway Company had become Southern Region (RAIL 647/93-96).

Date: 1908-1960
Related material:

For later documents see AN 151

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SOU 3
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Southern Railway Company, 1923-1947

Physical description: 96 files, papers and rolls
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1972-2004 British Railways Board

Accruals: Series is not accruing

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