Records of Mitchells, Johnston & Co, solicitors, Glasgow, Scotland

These papers represent the working papers and reference materials used and collected during the railway business of Mitchells, Johnston & Co.

• Ledgers concerning the railway business of Mitchells, Johnston & Co 1842-1870
• Miscellaneous documents, usually individual items relating to separate railway companies, including the Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway , Scottish Central Railway , Stobcross Railway , Kilsyth & Falkirk Railway , Highland Railway 1846-1906
• Miscellaneous documents, usually individual items relating to separate railway companies outside of Scotland, including the Metropolitan District Railway , North Midland Railway , Great Eastern Railway , Metropolitan Railway , Great Northern Railway , East London Railway , Sheffield & Rotherham Railway , Midland Railway , Cambrian Railway , Great Central Railway , Lancashire Railway , London & Midland Grand Junction Railway 1844-1909
• Records relating to the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union canal and the Forth and Clyde Navigation 1832-1866
• Correspondence and reports 1846-1867
• Railway acts 1824-1892
• Railway legislation and trade union material 1869-1969
• Railway freight markets material 1873-1907
• Wages arbitration records 1897-1920
• Railway and canal court cases material 1835-1854
• Redundancy arrangements and publications 1966-1969
• Copies of the Railway Times 1943-1948
• Copies of the Railway News 1874-1875
• Railway plans relating to the parish of Lesmahagow 1898-1909

The legal firm of Mitchells, Johnston & Co , founded by Thomas Grahame in c1745  , and were appointed the University of Glasgow's law agents in 1776  . In the 1830s  the company became deeply involved with railway work. This was a major concern of James Mitchell and, later, his cousin and partner, Alexander Oswald Mitchell. The firm was involved with many of the early Scottish railway lines subsequently absorbed by the Caledonian Railway or the North British Railway Co , and in acting as agents for these companies, amassed a large collection of papers relating to railway cases.

The material is arranged into series as shown in the scope and content.

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Loan : Mitchells, Johnston & Co : Glasgow : prior to 1966

The archive forms part of the Scottish Railways Collection held by Glasgow University Archive Services, finding aid reference GB 248 UGD 008

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Held by Mitchells, Johnston & Co , solicitors, Glasgow. The material forms part of the GB 248 UGD 008 Scottish Railway Collection.

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J R Kellet,Railways and Victorian Cities(London, 1979)

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