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RefNoK515/B/93
AltRefNo515/B93
TitleRailway survey book
DescriptionCharles Muriel Bidwell, 'Surveyor, Ely and 17 Trinity Street Cambridge'. Volume divided by printed column throughout into: length; back; fore; rise; fall; section; plan; remarks. 'B.M.' refers to Benchmarks of distances. Routes surveyed:
a. Midland and Eastern Counties Railway. Trial Section from E[astern] C[ounties] Railway at Cambridge to St Neots, dated 8 September 1845
b. check levels for fixing benchmarks on the Direct Exeter Railway from Kingsclere (Hampshire) towards London 10 miles, dated 27 October 1845
c. Midland and Eastern Counties Railway. Parliamentary Section from Cambridge to St Neots (with note of Datum at Hills Road Bridge, Cambridge), dated 10 November 1845
d. Essex and Suffolk Railway. Section of deviation line from Sudbury to Lavenham (Suffolk) by Newmans Green and Cuckoo Tye, dated 22 November 1846
e. London and Exeter Direct Railway. Section from Kensington to Knightsbridge from B[ench]M[ark] of Mr Marks, dated 26 November 1846
f. Ely Inclosure. Levels for Drainage (2 pages only, at Littleport Road and 'Tunnel at Metcalfes Close'), undated
g. section of line of railway from Ely via Soham to Newmarket, for Messrs Harlock (with note of Datum at Ely Station), April and May 1846
h. particulars of evidence on Ely and Bury Railway re opposition to Eastern Union Extension, undated [1846]. Includes notes relating to railways at Disninge Lodge Estate (land of Charles Eaton Hammond), at Herringswell (land of John Turner Hales) and at other points including Popes Farm and Isaac's Farm possibly in connection with evidence for Ely and Bury Railway
j. Newmarket and Chesterford [Railway] gradients from Ely to Kentford and from Newmarket to Bury [St Edmunds]
k. rough survey notes at Willingham, Thetford, Downham, Wilburton etc. at rear
Inserted loose copy letters from Thomas Burton advising that a resurvey of railway land quantities at Martins Land in Hilgay has been made, dated 20 January 1848, and from C[harles] M[uriel] B[idwell] advising that the quantities cannot be adjusted without an examination, dated 22 January 1848
Date1845-1848
CreatorNameBidwell and Sons, Cambridgeshire, auctioneers
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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