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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York.It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took leases of, many local railways, whether actually built or not.
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The Great Northern Railway; Great Northern Railway Page; Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 — photographs and short history of one of six streamlined baggage-mail cars built for the Great Northern by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1950. Great Northern Railway route map (1920) Archived September 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
Pacific Great Eastern Railway: Canadian National Railway: 1958–present Yellowhead Pass: Alberta and British Columbia: 1,110 m (3,642 ft) Canadian Northern Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway: Canadian National Railway: 1914–present Originally two lines. GTP built 1914, CNoR built 1915. Consolidated into one line in 1917, with some ...
Since the 1960s, Great Northern has been used to describe the suburban part of the East Coast Main Line, south of Peterborough and south of Royston. The Great Northern Railway had proposed electrification of part of the line in 1903, but it was not until 1971 that a scheme to electrify the line from London King's Cross and Moorgate was ...
Great Northern Railway (U.S.), part of the BNSF Railway system; Houston and Great Northern Railroad in Texas, a predecessor of the International – Great Northern Railroad; International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, part of the Union Pacific Railroad; New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern in Louisiana and Mississippi, part of the ...
Great Northern Railway (U.S.), a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the BNSF Railway. Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: Great Northern Route, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK; Thameslink, Southern and Great ...
His efforts resulted in Portland being selected as the seaport for the Canadian transcontinental Grand Trunk Railway in 1845. [7] 1849 Railroad Map of New England & Eastern New York. The first railroad in Connecticut was the New York and Stonington Railroad, which was chartered in May 1832 and began construction in 1833. [9]