Great North Eastern Railway, often referred to as GNER, was a train operating company in the United Kingdom, owned by Sea Containers, that operated the...
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The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other...
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were: Great Eastern Railway Great Central Railway Great Northern Railway Great North of Scotland Railway Hull and Barnsley Railway North British Railway North...
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franchise on the East Coast Main Line since Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). Early on, the integration of Great Northern services into LNER's operation...
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The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating...
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company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway. On assuming its new title, the Great Central Railway had a main line from Manchester London...
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The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) produced several classes of locomotive, mostly to the designs of Nigel Gresley, characterised by a three-cylinder...
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Sudbury. First Great Eastern inherited a fleet of Class 312, Class 315 and Class 321s from British Rail. A Class 153 was hired from Anglia Railways for the Marks...
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The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company. It was incorporated in 1854 by the combination of several existing railway companies. Later...
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Great North Eastern Railway Ltd v Office of Rail Regulation [2006] EWHC 1942 (Admin) is a UK enterprise law case, concerning railways in the UK. Great...
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itself with the North Eastern Railway and the North British Railway so as to offer seamless travel facilities. The main line railways of Great Britain were...
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The Great Eastern Railway was formed on 1 August 1862, when the Eastern Counties Railway changed its name. The ECR had originally been built to 5 ft (1...
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The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line" was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with...
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Alliance Rail Holdings (redirect from Great North Eastern Railway (Alliance Rail))
was a railway company developing plans to operate passenger trains in the United Kingdom through its subsidiaries Great North Western Railway Company...
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The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER (Chinese: 中國東省鐵路, Russian: Китайско-Восточная железная дорога, or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD)...
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The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a 114.5-mile (184.3 km) major railway line on the British railway...
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grouping in 1923, it came under the ownership of the London and North Eastern Railway, who introduced famous services such as the Flying Scotsman and...
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Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western passenger railway franchise. It...
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companies controlling the route; the North British Railway (NBR), the North Eastern Railway (NER) and the Great Northern Railway (GNR). In 1860 the three companies...
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The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the...
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The North Eastern Railway was formed by merger in 1854 and merged into the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923. Between those dates...
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BC Rail (redirect from Pacific Great Eastern Railway)
BCIT) is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it...
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the Eastern and Midlands Railway became part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. The constituents of the Eastern and Midlands Railway were:...
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InterCity East Coast (category Railway franchises in the United Kingdom)
transferred to the private sector in April 1996. Initially operated by Great North Eastern Railway (GNER), it was later operated by National Express East Coast...
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Sea Containers (section Railways)
franchise which it operated via to a newly-created subsidiary Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). In March 2005, the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the...
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SS Great Eastern was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell...
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Selby rail crash (redirect from Great Heck Accident)
28 February 2001. An InterCity 225 passenger train operated by Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) travelling from Newcastle to London collided with a Land...
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29 September 2018. Southern Railway E-Group (17 May 2004). "Class 365". Wikimedia Commons has media related to South Eastern Trains. Official website...
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Eastern Region of British Railways under the Transport Act 1947. In 1954, British Railways announced the closure of the former Great Eastern Railway terminus...
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National Express East Anglia (redirect from 'one' Great Eastern)
between three train operating companies, Anglia Railways, First Great Eastern and West Anglia Great Northern. In December 2001, the Strategic Rail Authority...
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