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Encyclopedia > Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. This website contains comprehensive details of those railways (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pstoog/trains/company/g/company_ger.htm) In 1902 the Northern & Eastern Railway also joined the GER.


Among the principal towns served from its London terminus at London Liverpool Street by the GER were Southend-on-Sea, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Yarmouth, Norwich and Cambridge, besides many of the East Anglian coast seaside resorts. It also served a busy suburban traffic area.


It was grouped with other railways to form the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923. The GER had owned over 1200 miles of line.



Major constituent railway companies of the London and North Eastern Railway:

Great Central | Great Eastern | Great Northern | Great North of Scotland | Hull & Barnsley | North British | North Eastern

(Full list of constituents)

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Great Western Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1558 words)
The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade.
The South Wales Railway, terminating at Neyland, opened in 1850 and was connected to the GWR via Brunel's ungainly Wye bridge in 1852.
Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal.
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