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	Encyclopedia: History of rail transport in Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Great Eastern Railway(GER): the GER was an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and the Northern and Eastern Railway, and as its name suggests served the eastern counties of England: Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
		Great Western Railway (GWR): the GWR was incorporated in 1835 to construct a railway, operated on the broad gauge of 7 ft 0.25 in (2140 mm), between Bristol and London.
		North Eastern Railway (NER): The NER was incorporated in 1854, and was the amalgamation of three railways: the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway; the York and North Midland Railway; and the Leeds Northern Railway.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-rail-transport-in-Great-Britain (10518 words)

	London and North Eastern Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway (711 words)

	PETERHEAD - LoveToKnow Article on PETERHEAD
		The town is built of the red granite for which it is famous, and the quarrying of which for home and foreign use constitutes an important industry.
		The north and south harbours lie between the town and Keith Incha suburb at the extremity of the peninsula on part of which the town is builtand the isthmus dividing them is pierced by a canal crossed by an iron swing-bridge.
		Peterhead is the terminus of a cable to Norway.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PETERHEAD.htm (470 words)

	Aberdeen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aberdeen is a royal burgh, city and county of a city, capital of Aberdeenshire, and chief seaport in the north of Scotland.
		It is the third Scottish town in population, industry and wealth, and stands on a bay of the North Sea, between the mouths of the Don and Dee, 130 1/2 m.
		Aberdeen is served by the Caledonian, [[Great North Railway of ScotlandGreat North of Scotland]] and North British railways (occupying a commodious joint railway station), and there is regular communication by sea with London and the chief ports on the eastern coast of Great Britain and the northern shores of the Continent.
	usapedia.com /a/aberdeen.html (3140 words)

	ABERDEEN - LoveToKnow Article on ABERDEEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, IST EARL OF (1637-1720), lord chancellor of Scotland, son of Sir John Gordon, ist baronet of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, executed by the Presbyterians in 1644, was born on the 3rd of October 1637.
		In the great affair of the Union in 1707, while protesting against the Completion of the treaty till the act declaring the Scots aliens should be repealed, he refused to support the opposition to the measure itself and refrained from attending parliament when the treaty was settled.
		Aberdeen is served by the Caledonian, Great North of Scotland and North British railways (occupying a commodious joint railway station), and there is regular communication by sea with London and the chief ports on the eastern coast of Great Britain and the northern shores of the Continent.
	20.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AB/ABERDEEN.htm (4931 words)

	Great North Eastern Railway
		Great North Eastern Railway has announced plans to build three new stations near Doncaster, Edinburgh and north London, as part of its bid to the Strategic Rail Authority for a new franchise to run the east coast mainline.
		Great North Eastern Railway is asking the government to extend its franchise on the east coast main line from seven to 15 years, and also wants a guarantee that any future operator would be required to run tilting trains in order to reduce its leasing costs on these trains.
		Great North Eastern Railway is offering to profit-share with the government in return for the doubling of its seven year franchise in order to justify an investment in eight new trains for its London to Scotland services.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /gry71790.htm (236 words)

	The London and North Eastern Railway
		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.
		Farther north, in 1840, a railway between Aberdeen and Inverness, the Great North of Scotland, was incorporated.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r046.html (5430 words)

	GNSRA. The General Managers of The Great North of Scotland Railway Company. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In its earliest days the Great North did not have a General Manager, but by 1856 it was clear to the Directors that this post should be created.
		Relations with other Companies, not least the Highland, underwent great change -indeed Mr Moffat was instrumental in the negotiations to amalgamate the two railways and it was not his fault that the scheme failed.
		When the Great North became part of the LNER, George Davidson was appointed Solicitor for Scotland in the new Company and moved to Edinburgh.
	home.clara.net /griffon/gnsra/gnsra_managers.htm (1049 words)

	Boddam Branch (Great North of Scotland Railway)
		Formantine and Buchan Railway and the Great North of Scotland Railway's Boddam branch.
		Great North of Scotland Railway's Hotel was electric.
		The railway embankment has been removed for a long distance so the exact location of the station can only now be guessed at.
	www.railscot.co.uk /Boddam_Branch/body.htm (777 words)

	EARLS OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Great North of Scotland railway enters the shire in the S.E. from Craigellachie, whence a branch runs up the Spey to Boat of Garten in Inverness-shire, and in the N.E. from Port Gordon, running in both cases to Elgin, from which a branch line extends to Lossiemouth.
		The Highland railway traverses the western limits of the shire running almost due north to Forres, whence it turns westward to Nairn and eastward to Elgin.
		In the civil war Montrose ravaged the villages which stood for the Covenanters, but most of the great lairds shifted in their allegiance, and the mass of the people were quite indifferent to the declining fortunes of the Ste-warts.
	22.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EL/ELGIN_AND_KINCARDINE_EARLS_OF.htm (2847 words)

	David Kinnear Clark
		Author of the influential textbook Railway Machinery (1855), in which the importance of wide steam passages was stressed, Clark was also a specialist in the theory of balancing, and the rules he laid down were broadly observed by designers for many decades.
		The brief contentious period as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway.
		On the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway measurements were made of the gradual reheating of the cylinders of Nile as an express left Linlithgow towards Glasgow.
	www.steamindex.com /people/clark.htm (1359 words)

	Great North of Scotland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the early days the GNSR had troubled relations with the HR, especially regarding access to Inverness, but later cooperation developed and in the 1880's the two companies pooled some of their traffic and granted each other running powers on each others lines.
		The GNSR was idiosyncratic, for some time it declined to join the Railway Clearing House and yet it was amongst the first to use single-line tablet exchange apparatus, an early exponent of mail collection on the move and was one of the first companies to employ electric lighting at its stations.
		It is also noted for its involvement with the whiskey industry, transporting grain and coal to the many distilleries located in the river valleys (notably on Speyside) and lifting the bottled spirit for transport to the docks or to the rest of the country.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app2/lner/gnsr.htm (748 words)

	Great North of Scotland Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 1923 it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway.
		A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway (Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd, 1949)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_North_of_Scotland_Railway (156 words)

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		The barons were impoverished, their great estates mortgaged to thrifty burghers, who extorted from their poverty charters of freedom, which unlocked the fetters and broke the spell of the dark ages.
		Scotland was so indignant at the act, that she took refuge in England, only to fall into Elizabeth's hands.
		Great courtiers were fawning at his feet listening to his pedantic wisdom, and humoring his theory of the "Divine right" of hereditary Kingship.
	www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext04/vlmpr10.txt (21385 words)

	Johnson, Thomas Lewis, 1836?-. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or the Story of My Life in Three Continents. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Great preparations were made to receive him at the "Exchange Hotel and Ballard House," On the Sabbath afternoon the Prince and his Suite were riding out.
		This work reminds one of the great arch-rebel himself who compels men and women in spiritual slavery to build up the walls of their own imprisonment against the army of liberty, and who also forces his victim to forge the chains for their own bondage and banishment from God.
		In nearly every regiment a school was established during the encampments; and in some instances, female teachers from the North, impelled by the philanthropy which induced an army of teachers South to teach the freedmen, also brought them to the barracks and the camp ground to instruct the soldiers of the phalanx.
	docsouth.unc.edu /johnson/johnson.html (16949 words)

	Historical perspective for Huntly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It served as the residence of the Duke of Gordon's eldest son, from the time of the removal of the family seat to Gordon Castle; and after the death of the last duke in 1836, became the residence of the dowager-duchess.
		Several bleachfields of great repute were long in operation on the Bogie; and the manufacture of fine linen, introduced from Ireland in 1768, towards the close of last century had an annual value of from £30,000 to £40,000.
		A large trade in grain, arising since 1820, received a great stimulus from the opening of the railway; and other sources of prosperity are the marketing and export of eggs and cheese, and an extensive retail trade in the supply of miscellaneous goods to the surrounding country.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townhistory174.html (1337 words)

	51L: The finely detailed railway model. Useful contacts list
		The society was formed in 1983 to promotes the study of the old Caledonian Railway Company and produces a regular newsletter and the journal 'Tru Line' periodically.
		The society was formed in 1976 to promote the study of the Railways around Cumbria and the Lake District.
		We are interested in the infrastructure of the railway, the men and women who made it work, as well as the engines and rolling stock which it built and used.
	home.freeuk.net /matthew.heald/usefullContacts.htm (1262 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Best Hostels: 2000
		Hostels are great for families, though we found the cost often close to budget hotels when travelling with four.
		The Wombat hostel in Vienna is great too, filled with Australians it seems, but very clean, friendly, internet access for cheap, nice rooms and showers, they give you a free drink at the bar, and you get to keep the towels you rent (still wondering about that!).
		Though it is not as nice as the previous two, the hostel has great atmosphere in a great town.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/hostels_1.html (7003 words)

	Scotland's railway stations and adjacent landscapes in the year 1900 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Scotland's railway stations and adjacent landscapes in the year 1900
		As a reminder of the heyday of 19th century railway enthusiasm I am producing reconstructed scenes of s.
		In addition to my own researches, the scenes are built with input from railway heritage associations, local museums, station staff including retired station masters, signalmen and local residents.
	www.harleymiller.com /heritage.html (124 words)

	DUFFTOWN - LoveToKnow Article on DUFFTOWN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		, a municipal and police burgh of Banffshire, Scotland, on the Fiddich, 64 m.
		W.N.W. of Aberdeen by the Great North of Scotland railway.
		The place has become an important junction of the Great North of Scotland railway system.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DU/DUFFTOWN.htm (461 words)

	The Keith & Dufftown Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Headquarters and western terminus of the Railway, Dufftown Station is located less than a mile from the town centre towards Elgin on the A941.
		Much of the path is on the trackbeds of the Great North of Scotland Railway.
		This is currently used for the storage of materials and rolling stock, and is dominated by the two grain silos formerly used for the transfer of grain from railway and road vehicles.
	www.keith-dufftown.org.uk /JourneyDufftown.html (581 words)

	Signal Boxes of the Great North of Scotland Railway
		As a small railway company in a corner of Scotland, the Great North of Scotland couldn't really see the need for signalling, and only basic facilities featured until the 1889 Regulation of Railways Act forced their arm.
		The Great North of Scotland had introduced this hipped roof design by 1880, featuring three-pane-high windows in a wooden top section, fitted to a base built in local granite or brick.
		The Great North of Scotland became part of the
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/gns.htm (310 words)

	51L: The finely detailed railway model. A brief background to the Highland Railway
		The Great North of Scotland Railway had reached Huntly from Kittybrewster by 1854, extended to Waterloo Guay in Aberdeen in 1855 and to Kieth the following year.
		Because of a shortage of funds the railway was unable to reach its final destination, the highland capital Inverness.
		The traffic of the Highland Railway was seasonal in nature being dependent on agriculture and tourists particularly during the shooting season.
	home.freeuk.net /matthew.heald/infohr.htm (565 words)

	Great Northern Eastern Railways - Typhoon.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The GreatNorthern Railway broke thispart of the North Eastern Railway).
		Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are separate aras which we hopetchoukball is currently played are in the Eastern Region and the Southern Region.
		Railway Eastern Counties Railway station was built by Eastern Counties Railway inopposite what is now The GreatEastern Tavern in Railway StreetBroxbourne.
	www.typhoon.co.uk /directory/372667_great.html (995 words)

	Maud Station. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The last railway line in the Formartine and Buchan districts of Aberdeenshire was closed in 1979.
		Formartine is the geographical district south of the Ythan river, Buchan is north of the Ythan.
		Also in the museum are photographs and displays of railway memorabilia of all sorts from the Great North of Scotland Railway (1861-1922), from LNER days (1923-1947), and latterly British Rail (1948-1979).
	www.peterhead.org.uk /attractions/maud_station.htm (222 words)

	The House of Lochar - Catalogue 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Volume 3: "The Great North of Scotland Railway" Author: H. Vallance, updated by GNSR Association
		The only one of the five Highland railways to include the word "Great" in its title it was, paradoxically, the smallest.
		First published in 1965, the paperback edition was published in 1991 and includes much more historical information, some of it in extended appendices which took many months of hard work to complete.
	www.colonsay.org.uk /lochar/volume3.html (103 words)

	James Manson
		Having served with the Glasgow and South Western Railway (GandSWR), Manson became the Locomotive Superintendent of the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) in 1883.
		Manson's tenure with the GNSR was very short (3 years), but he revolutionised GNSR locomotive design.
		Manson resigned from the GNSR in 1890 when he was appointed to the position of Locomotive Superintendent of the GandSWR.
	www.lner.info /eng/manson.shtml (150 words)

	SRPS : Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		EWS provide the motive power for SRPS Railtours and one of their locomotives, 37 411 The Scottish Railway Preservation Society, is named after the SRPS.
		National society specialising in the infrastructure of railways in Britain and abroad.
		The Great North of Scotland Railway Railway served the north east of Scotland from Aberdeen to Elgin, a largely agricultural area which included the fishing ports of Buchan and the splendid scenery of Deeside and Speyside
	www.srps.org.uk /related/railinks.htm (741 words)

	The Scottish Railway Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Scottish Railway Exhibition was opened in 1995 in a purpose-built 15,000 sq.
		It was built in 1897 by the Great North of Scotland Railway.
		It is open on Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway operating days between April and October, and offers a unique exploration of 100 years of railways.
	www.srps.org.uk /related/sre.htm (352 words)

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