The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) received its Parliamentary approval on June 26, 1846, following over two years’ of local meetings. Its eventual area encompassed the three Scottish counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Morayshire. Although the line had several branches, its remoteness and the fact that it served an area far removed from the rest of Britain, has resulted in only its main line remaining today. At the Grouping in 1924 it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway. An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Aberdeenshire can refer to two local authorities in Scotland with this name. ... Banffshire (Siorrachd Bhanbh in Gaelic) is a small traditional county in the north of Scotland. ... Morayshire or Elginshire (Siorrachd Mhoireibh in Gaelic) is one of the traditional counties of Scotland, bordering Nairnshire to the west, Inverness-shire to the south, and Banffshire to the east. ... The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second-largest of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. ...
The external link has a comprehensive history of the Railway.
External links
GNSR history
Preserved Carriage Database
A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway (Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd, 1949)
(Full list of constituents) The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second-largest of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. ... The Great Central Railway (GCR) was the latter day name of a railway company of the United Kingdom which earlier was known as the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR). ... 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. ... The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of 1846. ... The Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR) was opened on July 20, 1885. ... The North British Railway was a Scottish railway company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923. ... The North Eastern Railway (NER), unlike many other of the pre-Grouping companies, had a relatively compact territory, having the district it covered to itself. ... The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was formed out of a number of constituent railway companies at the grouping in 1923. ...
The public face of a railway system was and is in large part the locomotives and rolling stock in service upon it, and therefore the personalities of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the LNER impressed their distinctive visions upon the railway.
Sir Nigel Gresley was the first CME and held the post for the greatest proportion of the LNER's life, and thus he had the greatest effect on the company.
The company was nationalised in 1948 under the Railways Act 1947 and became part of British Railways, so that the servear war damagage in the big, inner city stations could be repaired more swiftly, due to goverment intervention.
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