File NLW MSS 9246-9247D. - Lynmouth & Minehead Light Railway Company proposals,

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NLW MSS 9246-9247D.

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Lynmouth & Minehead Light Railway Company proposals,

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  • 1883-1898. (Creation)

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Book label of Sir James Weeks Szlumper inside front cover of NLW MS 9246D.

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Handwritten and printed material relating to the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Company (Plymouth and Devonport Extension) Bill 1883, including an agreement dated June 1883; printed and handwritten agreements made between the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway Company and John Pethick and others, 1886-1888, relating to construction work to be carried out on the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, with estimated costs, together with two handwritten contract agreements, 1888, specifically referring to Tavistock Station and one handwritten contract agreement, 1889, specifically referring to Brentor Station; together with printed timetables, 1886-1887, of mail and passenger ships at Plymouth.

Printed and handwritten proposals, 1898, by the Lynmouth & Minehead Light Railway Company to construct a line from Lynmouth in Devon to Minehead in Somerset in accordance with the Light Railways Act of 1896, together with: printed, handwritten and typewritten estimates of costs; numerous typewritten oppositions to the proposal, including those of property-holders and landowners living along the proposed route, Somerset County Council and the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty; and newspapers cuttings, 1898, from the Western Daily Press, Bristol, relating to a public inquiry regarding the proposed railway scheme.

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English.

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Preferred citation: NLW MSS 9246-9247D.

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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