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METROPOLITAN AND ST JOHN'S WOOD RAILWAY COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1297/MSTJ

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: METROPOLITAN AND ST JOHN'S WOOD RAILWAY COMPANY

Date(s): 1864-1883

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company
Metropolitan Railway Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company was a subsidiary of the Metropolitan Railway Company. It carried out the construction of a northern extension to the Metropolitan Railway's central London line. An extension between Baker Street and Swiss Cottage was opened in 1868. The line was continued to West Hampstead and Willesden Green in 1879, Harrow in 1880 and Pinner in 1885. The Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company merged with the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1882. The line extensions are now part of the London Underground's Metropolitan Line.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company, comprising minutes of Board and Proprietors Meetings.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: ACC/1297/MSTJ/01: Minutes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

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
Transport companies | Companies | Enterprises
Transport organizations | Organizations
Underground railway networks | Railways | Transport infrastructure
Urban transport | Transport
Urban transport development | Transport planning | Transport
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
London Underground | Metropolitan Line
Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company
Metropolitan Railway Company

Places
Hampstead | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Harrow (district) | Harrow | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Pinner | Harrow | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Swiss Cottage | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Willesden | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Brent