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	The Railways of Canada Archives -- A Legislative History of Nova Scotia Railways
		In 1865 (c.13), railways from Truro to New Brunswick (slow to proceed because of the barrier posed by the Cobequid Mountains) and from Windsor to Annapolis (with the province bearing the high cost of the necessary bridge across the Avon River at Windsor) were authorized.
		The authorized railway was in the streets of Liverpool and Milton, and the highway between them, "thence by the west side of the Mersey River [referenced to as the Liverpool River in the Milton Tramway charter] to the premises of the Milton Pulp company, limited, and thence across the river to the pulp mill".
		Since the railway crossed a good many streets in the then-unincorporated town of Shelburne, some of which were unopened, and had graded the road thought the town, the municipality had to be given authority to close the streets to public use to avoid an excessive number of crossings (c.122).
	www.trainweb.org /canadianrailways/articles/LegislativeHistoryOfNSRailways.html (17267 words)

	Great Eastern Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London to Norwich and had various other lines through East Anglia.
		The GER was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk Railway, the Eastern Union Railway, the Newmarket Railway, the Harwich Railway, the East Anglian Light Railway and the East Suffolk Railway; amongst others.
		It was grouped with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Eastern_Railway (217 words)

	The Illustrated London News - Politics & Economics
		MATERIAL as is the Railway System, generally to the interests of the community, it has of late acquired a peculiar interest, in consequence of the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the mode in which Railways are managed.
		When the various leading Railway Companies were first formed, the public hailed their formation, because they were led to believe, that the principal object which their originators had in view, was the accommodation and benefit of the community.
		The Railway Proprietors, instead of reducing their fares, have kept them up at the rates which had been fixed on, before it could be ascertained what would be the result of the new experi-ment.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/ind_rev/iln/politic.htm (4937 words)

	History of the Line
		The Lynn and Dereham Railway and the Norfolk Railway both obtained Parliament's permission to build lines to Dereham in 1845, at the height of the so-called "Railway Mania", when railways were being frantically built across the whole country.
		It was perhaps inevitable, therefore, that the Eastern Counties Railway took on a lease of the Norfolk Railway from May 1848.
		All this time, the Eastern Counties Railway had been jealously guarding its monopoly in East Anglia, dominating and then leasing smaller companies in the area (the notable exceptions being the companies which were to form part of the MandGN).
	www.mnr.org.uk /about/history.html (2002 words)

	Ipswich Transport Museum
		The Eastern Counties Railway had opened a line from London to Colchester on 29th March 1843 but were making little progress in extending it northwards.
		The Great Eastern Railway was formed on the 1st July 1862 by the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties, the East Anglian, the Newmarket, Eastern Union and Norfolk Railway Companies.
		The Great Eastern Railway was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway on 1st January 1923, ending 61 years of relative stability in local railways.
	www.ipswichtransportmuseum.co.uk /hrail.htm (1095 words)

	Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thurston County (comprised entirely of the Omaha and Winnebago reservations) has a Indian majority, and Butler County is one of only two counties in the nation with a Czech-American plurality.
		The Union Pacific Railroad was incorporated on July 1, 1862 in the wake of the Pacific Railway Act of 1862.
		Two major climates are represented in Nebraska: the eastern two-thirds of the state has a hot summer continental climate, and the western third of the state has a semiarid steppe climate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nebraska (1994 words)

	Eagle 61 - Railway Guide books of the Eastern Counties Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern and Eastern Railway Company was incorporated in 1836 to build from London to Cambridge, but by 1843 they had only reached Bishop's Stortford and they were taken over by the E.C.R..
		West from Norwich the Norwich and Brandon Railway was projected in 1843, and they merged with the Yarmouth and Norwich in 1845 to form the Norfolk Railway.
		A guide to the Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge line) from London to Brandon; of the NorfoIk railway, from Brandon by Norwich to Yarmouth; and of the Broxbourne and Hertford branch; with historic and topographic notices of the paishes and towns...
	www.cam.ac.uk /societies/curc/eagle/61/ul.htm (2187 words)

	Cambridge: Railways
		A Railway Act for Cambridge of 1844, 19 years after a line was proposed, established the first line (the Northern & Eastern Railway) and the station.
		Up to six railway companies operated in Cambridge station, which is why it has the longest platform in the country (twice the length of the longest one in Liverpool Street Station, for instance) and, until British Rail started redeveloping it, what was said to be the largest marshalling yard in East Anglia.
		The County Council sent a questionnaire to nearby homes and 95% of responses (which were 29% of those sent) were in favour of it.
	www.iankitching.me.uk /history/cam/railways.html (1045 words)

	BethnalGreen
		The Northern and Eastern Railway opened 15th September 1840 from Stratford to Broxbourne and agreement was reached to use the Eastern Counties Terminal.
		This enlargement was opened 1st April 1847 and from this date, due to the quadrupling of the tracks, the Eastern Counties to Colchester, and the Northern and Eastern to Cambridge were separated.
		The Eastern Counties Railway was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway in 1862 and the first half-yearly report commented adversely on the Bishopgate terminus.
	www.prints4u.co.uk /malroot/bgreen/bethnalgreen.htm (386 words)

	cvhr
		The first proposal to build a railway in the Colne Valley was in 1846 when, by Act of Parliament, the "Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway" was incorporated to build a line from Marks Tey on the Eastern Counties Railway to Sudbury, with branches to Halstead and from Colchester to Hythe.
		But when in 1856 the railway to Halstead had still not been built, the local citizens took matters into their own hands and a scheme was formally sanctioned by Act of Parliament on 30th June 1856 to build a line from the Eastern Counties Railway at Chappel and Wakes Colne to Halstead.
		During the hostilities the railways came under government control, and when returned to local control at the end of the war small Railway Companies, like the CVandHR, found it difficult to operate due to the neglect of their infrastructure and competition from road transport.
	cvrps.users.btopenworld.com /cvhr.htm (987 words)

	The London and North Eastern Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With great confidence the promoters of the new railway had announced that the line would be opened on Tuesday, September 27, and as early as half-past five in the morning hundreds of vehicles of all kinds were moving towards the railway.
		During the latter half of 1829 an extension of the railway from Stockton to an obscure village known as Middlesbrough, situated near the mouth of the River Tees, was proposed.
		It was from the Manchester district that the remaining partner of the London and North Eastern Railway emanated.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r046.html (5430 words)

	The Railways
		The economics of the railways is covered from the initial raising of capital in the 1840s, amalgamations of the railway companies in the late 19th century to the nationalisation debate, competition with road transport and line closures in the 20th century.
		There is a letter to an MP from "a Scotchman" regarding the "regulation" of Sunday travel on the railways, (HE1(42)/133) and a statement of opposition from Eton School masters to the proposed extension of the Great Western Railway from Slough to Windsor (HE1(42)/102).
		In 1866 W. Livesey wrote "A financial scheme for the relief of the railway companies, submitted to directors, shareholders and the public for their consideration" (HE1(42)/406) and in 1867 T. Wrigley wrote "Railway reform: a plan for the separation of capital from revenue" (HE1/(42)/380).
	www.lse.ac.uk /library/pamphlets/Transport/transportpamphletpages/the_railways.htm (1585 words)

	Stonehaven, The History
		He then went to work for an Edinburgh firm of civil engineers where he devised a new method of detonating explosive charges by the use of electricity, thus greatly reducing the loss of lives in mines throughout the world.
		Thomson next worked as a railway engineer and supervised the blasting of chalk cliffs near Dover for the South Eastern Railway.
		Soon he set up his own railway consultancy business and proposed the line for the Eastern Counties railway which was accepted by parliament and eventually developed.
	www.mearns.org.uk /stonehaven/thomson.htm (937 words)

	Ongar Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The railway was not extended to Epping and Ongar until 1865, by which time the ECR had been absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway.
		This new line was initially single track, leaving the ECR's branch just south of its original terminus and requiring the construction of a new station at Loughton; the old being converted to a goods yard and sidings.
		However in 1923 the GER was absorbed into the newly created London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and, in the years which followed, development of these towns along the railway gained momentum and created an increasing burden on the steam hauled services of the branch.
	www.londonrailways.net /ongar.htm (713 words)

	London railway stations
		Euston Station was built in 1838 for the London and Birmingham Railway.
		Railway between London and the Eastern counties: ger.co.uk
		LiverpoolStreet Station, the terminus of the Great Eastern Railway, was opened in 1874 - thelast of London's great mainline stations to be completed.
	www.2747.com /2747/world/station/london.htm (390 words)

	North Eastern Railway locomotives
		The mightiest constituent, historically, was the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
		The history of this railway is encompassed into what David Jenkinson regards as a magisterial work, and this provides the key focus for this entry.
		A copy was obtained from North Yorkshire County Library where it had been seen at such tiny libraries as Kirbymoorside, but is not available in potential "City of Culture" Norwich.
	www.steamindex.com /locotype/nerloco.htm (1419 words)

	The Amalgamation of Victorian Railways; or What Followed the Railway Mania
		The Great Northern Railway founded in 1846 was an amalgamation of the London and York and the Direct Northern railways, but did not reach London until 1850, King's Cross Station being opened two years later.
		The Great Eastern Railway began as the Eastern Counties Railway, a motley collection of many small railways in East Anglia, of which the Northern and Eastern was the most important, for it extended the scope of the railway towards Cambridge.
		Although amalgamation was the rule, some lines, like the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, remained independent from 1838, the year it opened, until the second decade of the twentieth century, when it mereged with the the London and North Western Railway.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/technology/railways/casserley1.html (833 words)

	PRIESTLEY V. FOWLER (1837) AND THE EMERGING TORT OF NEGLIGENCE
		Hutchinson was an action brought under the Fatal Accidents Act144 by the widow of a railway labourer killed when the carriage in which he was conveyed collided with another of the defendant’s carriages.
		Eastern Counties Railway Co. 218 to illustrate the defence of common employment, especially as a bar to actions brought under Lord Campbell’s Act.
		Convinced that Priestley was both analytically and technically poor, R.W. Kostal is sceptical regarding the case’s importance, instead believing it to be the “unreliable precedent of an unreliable judge.”252 In support of his contention, Kostal cites the little known case of Armsworth v.
	www.bc.edu /schools/law/lawreviews/meta-elements/journals/bclawr/44_3/01_TXT.htm (7687 words)

	Histon and Impington OnLine: Histon Railway Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1847 the Eastern Counties Railway Company (which merged with G.E.R. in 1862) opened a station at Histon on the Cambridge St. Ives line.
		From 1903 the Parish Council pressed the railway companies to erect a platform cover and a more adequate waiting room "supported by the yearly increase in passengers." The cover built between 1911 and 1914 is maintained today by Histon Parish Council.
		It was also used as a trial line for new railway technology such as concrete sleepers, continuous welded rail, multiple aspect signalling (traffic light type) and for experimental rolling stock during the change-over from steam to diesel.
	www.hisimp.net /history/histstn.htm (614 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway - History
		In 1856 The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR), which later became part of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) opened a double track railway between Stratford and Loughton.
		Following nationalisation of the railways in 1948 individual assets of the main line rail companies and LT were transferred to the control of new executive bodies.
		The London Transport Executive (LTE) was the inheritor of the former LT assets and as the line from Leyton to Loughton was served by LT trains the track, stations and staff were transferred to them.
	eorailway.co.uk /history.htm (697 words)

	History of Thurston
		The history of the line began in the mid 19th century when the Eastern Union Railway Company (E. R.) was formed by some dissident directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company (E. R.) who were aggrieved at that companies failure to build their line from London beyond Colchester and on to Ipswich.
		Under the Eastern Counties Railway by 1856 the number of passenger trains stopping at Thurston had risen to six to Ipswich and seven to Bury, with six stopping goods trains.
		Prior to nationalisation of the railways in 1948 coal was carried in 12-ton wooden wagons belonging to individual collieries or large coal merchants.
	app-ltd.com /elymrc/thurston_station_history.htm (4943 words)

	Great Eastern Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Eastern Counties Railway opened in 1839 and over the years it bought out or established joint working arrangements with a number of lines.
		The closely allied Eastern Counties, Eastern Union, East Anglian, East Suffolk and Norfolk Railway with a number of minor lines were unified as the Great Eastern Railway in 1862.
		East Anglia is home to several of the larger agricultural equipment manufacturers and such equipment was regular cargo for the railway, carried on open wagons.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app2/lner/ger.htm (902 words)

	BBC - Essex News - Life Saving Equipment At Railway Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		First Great Eastern has taken the initiative of installing life-saving equipment at some of their railway stations across Essex.
		In 1839 the first railway in the Eastern Counties opened between Mile End and Romford.
		Life-saving equipment is being installed at railway stations across Essex to help passengers in the event of an emergency.
	www.bbc.co.uk /essex/news/2002/09/02/railway_stations.shtml (134 words)

	Blythburgh Society - The History Notes: Railways to Southwold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story of the Southwold Railway, the narrow gauge line that operated between Halesworth and Southwold from 1879 to 1929, is well known.
		What was by then the East Suffolk Railway extended its line from Halesworth to Woodbridge in 1859 giving, with the Eastern Counties Railway through Ipswich, a direct route to London.
		The 1875 railway proposals were competing with the Southwold Railway.
	www.blythweb.co.uk /blythburgh/swdrail.htm (462 words)

	1854 The arrival of the railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first railway station was built at the seaward end of George Street.
		A railway line ran along the quayside to the Corporation Pier (Ha'penny Pier) so that steamers could be bunkered from coal trucks pulled alongside by horses.
		In November, nearly 4000 shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway came from London in four special trains, each being greeted by a salvo from the Redoubt's guns.
	users.quista.net /farnell/images/nov/1854.htm (317 words)

	The Impact of the Railway on the Sutton Region
		The impact of a railway on the economic development and growth of a region is undeniable.
		During the 19th century, at a time when roads were hard to travel, small towns in Quebec lucky enough to become ‘stations’ along any given railway, benefited from greater potential for development.
		Sutton, a small town near the American border in the Eastern townships, had a population of only 350 when it was selected to become one such station on the new Montreal-Boston train line of the South Eastern Counties Junction Railway.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /CommunityMemories/ADOK/00ab/Exhibits/English (162 words)

	Hertford, Hertfordshire. - Discover Hertford Online
		The first railway station was built by Eastern Counties Railway in 1843 opposite what is now The Great Eastern Tavern in Railway Street.
		With the increased use of roads, rail operations in the town were scaled down during the latter half of the twentieth century, culminating in the implementation of The Beeching Report in the 1960s, which closed many stations and lines, including the link between Hertford North and Hertford East.
		Although the track was taken up, the line of the railway is still in evidence in lower Bengeo, where the disused cuttings and bridges remain.
	www.hertford.net /history/histrail.asp (412 words)

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