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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Midland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
		The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands.
		It was the emblem of the rulers of Mercia and was used extensively as an emblem by the Midland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Midland-Railway (614 words)

	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (MandGN) was a joint railway between the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway in eastern England.
		The Joint Railway was formed in 1893 by the amalgamation of many smaller local lines, rather than being conceived from the start as a single trunk route.
		Until the creation of the MandGN, the Great Eastern Railway held a near-monopoly on East Anglian traffic and had assumed that their comprehensive network meant there were no population centres left to connect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midland_and_Great_Northern_Joint_Railway (539 words)

	Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Access was gained to the Norfolk coast by a joint acquisition with the MR of the Eastern and Midlands Railway from 1889, the system being known as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
		The GNR's role in the establishment of an Anglo-Scottish East Coast route was confirmed by establishment of the East Coast Joint Stock in 1860, whereby a common pool of passenger vehicles was operated by the GNR, North Eastern and North British Railways.
		A spur led from Marefield Junction on the main part of the railway, between John O'Gaunt and Tilton at Tilton on the Hill, to serve the city of Leicester to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Great_Britain) (843 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Midland Railway Consolidation Bill was placed before Parliament and was passed in 1844 by the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.
		To be known as The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway it received the Royal Assent in 1846, in spite of opposition from the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway.
		Meanwhile in the East Midlands, dominance along the Erewash Valley was being challenged by the Great Northern and the Great Central.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Midland_Railway (3175 words)

	Three Joint Railways
		The coaching stuck on the Midland and Great Northern is of the same type as that used by the L.N.E.R. for secondary and country branch passenger traffic, together with some of the older North Western bogie carriages.
		The plan of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway is simple in the extreme, the lines appearing on a railway map in the form of the letter Y. The main line runs north-west to Evercreech Junction from Broadstone Junction (Dorset), on the Southern Railway's line from Bournemouth West and Poole to Wimborne.
		This railway was originally incorporated in 1865 as a concern jointly owned by the Great Northern and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, the Midland coming in as a third partner shortly afterwards, in 1866.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r038.html (3650 words)

	Railway Collectors' Journal reporting Railwayana Auctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Croydon and Oxted Joint Railway opened the line from Woodside to Crowhurst Junction in 1884; it was operated jointly by the SER and LBSCR, and was grouped into the Southern Railway on 1st January 1923.
		From the ex Midland Railway station on the Sheffield to Rotherham line which opened as "The Holmes" in 1838, and was renamed "Holmes" in 1858 and closed as early as 1955 so this is a rare survivor.
		The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway was a triple joint ownership of the GER, Midland and Great Northern Railways.
	www.prorail.co.uk /auctions/sra/sra0305s.htm (15918 words)

	Cambridgeshire, EnglandGenWeb Project - Railways
		Cambridge was a great railway centre, and communicated with London via Hitchin, by the Great Northern section, and through Essex and Herts by the Great Eastern section, and northward to Ely and March, which were also centres.
		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 railway survived the "Beeching axe" after the evaluation of Britain's railways in 1961 led to wholesale closure of many rural routes, as the good Dr Beeching (the report's author), recognised the potential growth of an East -West route to the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich.
	www.rootsweb.com /~engcam/Transport/Railways.htm (2490 words)

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		It was an unwieldy construction, claiming to be the world's largest joint stock organisation, the largest transport organisation, and the largest commercial undertaking in Europe (although they did not say on what basis), including the largest chain of hotels.
		The early history of the LMS is dominated by infighting between its two largest constituents (and previously fierce rivals), the Midland and the North Western, each of which believed that their company's way was the right — and only — way of doing business.
		Generally, the Midland prevailed, with the adoption of many Midland practices, such as the livery of crimson lake for passenger locomotives and rolling stock.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway (747 words)

	Joint Railways
		Adrian Vaughan argues that railway probably began as a strategic branch line constructed from Spalding to Sutton Bridge rather than as a: rural byway from [King's] Lynn to Fakenham and this was extended westward over Sutton Bridge, still in use as a vital element in the A17 road, and eastward.
		The Johnson 4-4-0s supplied to the Joint line by Sharp Stewarts (and known as the Class C), were to the Midland Railway's 1808 Class design, and not the 2203 Class, whose driving wheel base was 6 inches longer.
		NEW 2-8-0 locomotives, Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
	www.steamindex.com /locotype/jointrly.htm (4107 words)

	Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
		The first was the Midland line from Saxby to Bourne, of which the portion from Little Bytham signal-box, where the line crosses the Great Northern main line, to Bourne, a distance of five miles, was handed over to the Midland and Great Northern Joint Committee, as part of the joint lines.
		At Peterborough the Midland and Great Northern engines are stabled at the Midland shed, and at Bourne a considerable number of Midland engines are quartered in the joint shed.
		Ivatt's Great Northern design (1101 class), and were built in 1900 for the latter railway by Dübs and Co. As this line then had more engines than it required, it was arranged to hand some of those under construction to the joint line.
	www.steamindex.com /library/ahronltw.htm (3512 words)

	British Railways - UK Railways
		The Northern Counties Committee lines owned by the LMS in Northern Ireland were quickly sold to the Stormont Government, becoming part of the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) in 1949.
		The British Railways Board (BRB) was created in 1962, taking over from the former British Transport Commission (BTC) which, in addition to the railway, was also responsible for the waterways (canals) and road freight transport.
		The early sixties also saw the "Great Locomotive Cull", with mass withdrawals of steam types, and their replacement with diesels, fewer of which were now needed on the now shrinking system.
	ukrailways.wikia.com /wiki/British_Railways (1542 words)

	Norfolk By Rail
		Railway and minor road sections are also available for use by horseriders and cyclists.
		This walk uses long sections of the abandoned formation of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, closed in 1959 (prior to the Beeching cuts).
		The railway line is particularly noted for its diversity of butterflies and parts of it have the feel of ancient greenways.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/rj.cullen/Cycle.htm (914 words)

	Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This line was a committee of the two named railways to jointly operate a number of small lines in East Anglia.
		The railway maintained an independent existance until 1935 when the L.M.S. and L.N.E.R. inheritors of the Joint Ownership in 1923, agreed that the administration should pass to the latter Company.
		On becoming part of the Eastern region of British Railways in 1948, the line was almost entirely closed by 1959.
	www.soc.staffs.ac.uk /~cmtdtr/collect/m_gn_jr.html (91 words)

	Midland and Great Northern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The constituents were the Eastern and Midlands (formed by the merger of the Yarmouth and North Norfolk and the Lynn and Fakenham in the 1880's), the Bourne and Lynn Railway and the Peterborough, Lynn, and Sutton Bridge Railway.
		The MandGN was the longest joint line in the country and although only about a third of its 186 miles was double tracked although the company had a reputation for efficient single line working.
		A Short History of the Midland and Great Northern Junction Railway by Ron Clarke - Goose and Son of Norwich, 1967.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app2/joint/mandgn.htm (509 words)

	Great Northern Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Great Northern Railway was established in the 1840's was intended to provide a fast link between London and York (reached in 1852).
		In 1859 the GNR and the Midland Railway purchased a line to the Norfolk coast which then became the 'Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway'.
		The Great Northern Railway goods warehouse in Manchester is still in existence, it can be seen from the 'tram' platform serving the Manchester Science Museum at Deansgate.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /gansg/00-app2/lner/gnr.htm (619 words)

	NORWAY (Norge) - Online Information article about NORWAY (Norge)
		Trondhjem Fjord, the next great fjord northward, which broadens inland from a narrow entrance, lacks grandeur, as the elevation of the land is reduced where the Trondhjem depression interrupts the average height of the plateau.
		Salten Fjord, to the N. of the great snow-field, is connected with Skjerstad Fjord by three narrow channels, where the water, at ebb and flow, forms powerful rapids.
		The great Lake Faemund, lying E. of the Glommen valley and drained by the river of the same name, which becomes the Klar in Sweden, to which country it mainly belongs, is similar in type to the lakes of the northern See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NORWAY_Norge_.html (4669 words)

	Peterborough North Station is expanded.
		The events of the last 10 years imply that our neighbouring town may be regretting not being on the GNR route.
		After their failed attempt via coach connection at Tallington, Stamford and Essendine Railway opened a station in Stamford, connected by a spur (known as the Marquess of Exeter's line) from the mainline at Essendine.
		The largest freight is currently coal from the Midlands and the North, en route to southern and eastern England.
	www.senseofplacepeterborough.org /railways/1866 (142 words)

	Railways On Line - Midland Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Midland Railway began life in 1844 by the amalgamation of The Midland Counties Railway, North Midland Railway and the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway which were all centered on Derby.
		The previous year (1867) had seen the Midland's route to Manchester, via Matlock, opened along with the one third owned (along with the Great Northern Railway and Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway) Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) route to Liverpool.
		The Midland Railways tradition was 'light and fast', regarding the running of its trains, both express and secondary, and especially locomotive design.
	www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk /enthuse/prenationalisation/lms/midland.htm (530 words)

	Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
		The branch line of the London and North Eastern railway from the main line to Wisbech harbour has materially assisted the development of the timber and coal trade of the town, and there is also a steam tramway from Wisbech station to Upwell for the conveyance of goods and passengers.
		The Midland and Great Northern joint line from Peterborough, which joins the London and North Eastern line at Sutton Bridge, affords an additional means of inter-communication, and by means of these railways the town is rendered one of the most desirable ports for carrying on shipping transactions between the Midland Counties and the Baltic Sea.
		The foundress endowed the hospital with a sum of £6,ooo, which was augmented by donations to the amount of £10,000: there are beds for 50 patients and an outpatients' department, opened in 1904.
	www.rootsweb.com /~engcam/places/wisbech.htm (2384 words)

	Railways On Line - Great Northern Railway
		In 1858, the GNR line into London from Hitchin was used by the Midland Railway.
		Established in 1879, the Great Northern and Great Eastern joint lines from Huntingdon through March into Lincolnshire, joined together by new construction, thwarted the ambitions of the GNR.
		Access was gained to the Norfolk coast by a joint acquisition with the MR of the Eastern & Midlands Railway from 1889, the system being known as the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.
	www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk /enthuse/prenationalisation/lner/gnr.htm (869 words)

	Melton Constable, Norfolk - Kelly's 1904
		The Railway Institute, opened in 1896, for the use of employés, comprises reading and billiard rooms, dining and coffee rooms, a library of 1,000 volumes, and also a large hall for public meetings and entertainments.
		The stud farm and paddocks, which adjoin the park, are celebrated as the birth-place of the Derby winner "Melton," and the Home farm for its herd of red polled cattle, Tamworth pigs and a stud of shire horses.
		Midland and Great Northern Joint Railways (locomotive department), Wm.
	apling.freeservers.com /Villages/MeltonConstable04.htm (819 words)

	Nigel J.L.Digby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Midland & Great Northern Railways Joint Committee was a cross-country line connecting Yarmouth, Norwich and Cromer with King's Lynn, Peterborough, Spalding and Bourne, and through them London, the Midlands and the North.
		The passenger stock was a mixture of Great Northern, Midland and ex-Eastern & Midlands carriages, although the Midland vehicles had nearly all been replaced with GN types by 1920.
		There are considerable remains of the railway spread over Norfolk and Lincolnshire, but a flavour of the M&GN can be experienced on the North Norfolk Railway between Sheringham and Holt.
	www.btinternet.com /~nigeldigby.models/mgn.htm (567 words)

	The Wisbech and Upwell Railway: Introduction
		The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a small railway that enjoyed and continues to enjoy a level of fame out of all proportion to its size.
		The tramway was unusual due to it being a roadside steam tramway.
		With a wooden body fitted, the end result was a locomotive that resembled a brake van.
	www.lner.info /article/wisbech/wisbech.shtml (243 words)

	Disused Railways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In earlier days the railway was operated by the Great Northern Railway which had a station and goods yard in Little Bytham.
		This was operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway to the east of Little Bytham, being the western extreme of their system, and the Midland Railway to the west.
		Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway including the station and goods yard in Castle Bytham.
	www.thebythams.org.uk /places/disusedrail (210 words)

	Adrian Vaughan - Brunel biography - Great Western Railway
		His specialities are the history of the Great Western Railway in general and the life of I.K Brunel in particular.
		Meanwhile their third daughter was born and he wrote more books, including the first really objective biography of I.K Brunel, lectured at York and Cambridge Universities, scripted and presented a documentary on Swindon railway works, appeared in other documentaries on Brunel and became a Tutor for the Workers Educational Association in 1991.
		Western Railway' and a chapter to 'Conserving the Railway Heritage' for York University.
	www.pixel-weaver.co.uk /av (520 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - A J Wrottesley und The Midland And Great Northern Joint Railway
		AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - A J Wrottesley und The Midland And Great Northern Joint Railway
		The Midland and Great Northern Joint Rialway was one of the 3 major "joint" railways durig the 1923-48 grouping era and this definitive history produces fresh evidence on many aspects.
		It covers the take over of the Eastern and Midlands Railway in 1893 together with the system under joint LMS and LNER administration Most of the system closed in 1959 in what was the first major route closed.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/A+J+Wrottesley+/tn/+The+Midland+And+Great+Northern+Joint+Railway+ (769 words)

	Signal Boxes of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway
		The Midland and Great Northern Joint had been formed in 1893 by a merger of the Midlands and Eastern Railway and the Eastern and Midlands Railway.
		However, this Midland cabin is on the former Eastern and Midland Railway's section, and was supplied second-hand around 1920.
		By virtue of its joint ownership, the Midland and Great Northern survived the grouping, becoming joint property of the LMS and LNER.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/mgn.htm (416 words)

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