Catalogue description Records of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company
This record is held by Liverpool Record Office
Reference: | 385 CHE |
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Title: | Records of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company |
Date: | 1838-1847 |
Arrangement: |
Summary 385 CHE/1 Reports, 1838 - 1847, 21 items 385 CHE/2 Accounts, 1841 - 1847, 33 items 385 CHE/3 Newscuttings, 9 items 385 CHE/4 Miscellaneous Ms. material, 2 items 385 CHE/5 Miscellaneous Printed Material, 3 items |
Held by: | Liverpool Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 68 items |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Presented by the family of Alderman A.H. Arkle, J.P., of Oxton, Birkenhead, 4 January 1934. The Chester and Birkenhead railway, opened in 1840, was the earliest Wirral line. |
Custodial history: |
Old no. Dq 4324 |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
Contracts for the first part of the line, from Birkenhead to Eastham, were made with Messrs. Bowers, Murray and Brownbill and, for the residue of the line, to Chester, with Messrs. Clements and Henry. The company was taken over by the London and North Western and Great Western Companies, jointly, in 1860. |
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