Catalogue description Durham and Sunderland Railway

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of DT.NER4
Reference: DT.NER4
Title: Durham and Sunderland Railway
Description:

Subscription book
Date: 1834
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Durham and Sunderland Railway, 1834-1846
Physical description: 1 volume
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 735 (part)
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

The Durham and Sunderland Railway Bill received royal assent on 13 August 1834, at which point £18,000 still had to be subscribed before the powers of the Act could be put in force. Meetings were held in Sunderland and Durham and appeals were made through the local press, following which the required capital was raised.

 

In 1846 the Company was taken over by the York and Newcastle, later York, Newcastle and Berwick Company, one of the original members of the North Eastern Railway Company on its creation in 1854 (see DT.NER3)
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