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London Metropolitan Archives

AYLESBURY AND BUCKINGHAM RAILWAY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1297/A&B

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: AYLESBURY AND BUCKINGHAM RAILWAY

Date(s): 1860-1894

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.25 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company was incorporated on 6 August 1860, and the line opened on 23 September 1868. It ran between Aylesbury and Verney Junction. A planned extension to Buckingham was never completed.

In 1891 the Metropolitan Railway Company acquired the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company and used its line as a northern extension of the Metropolitan Railway.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company, comprising Directors' Meetings minutes; Proprietors' meetings minutes; Wotton Tramway Committee minutes; and Contract Plan and Sections for the Aylesbury - Verney Railway.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Minutes: ACC/1297/A&B/01
Contract Plan and Sections: ACC/1297/A&B/03.
Please note there is no ACC/1297/A&B/02.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1975 as part of an accession of records from London Transport.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Public transport | Transport
Railways | Transport infrastructure
Transport companies | Companies | Enterprises
Transport organizations | Organizations
Urban transport | Transport
Urban transport development | Transport planning | Transport
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company
London Underground | Metropolitan Line

Places
Aylesbury | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Buckingham | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Verney Junction | Buckinghamshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe