| Description | Passing through parishes: Long Stanton All Saints [Longstanton; where junctions with St Ives to Cambridge line], Willingham, Over (Cambridgeshire), Bluntisham cum Earith, Colne, Somersham, Pidley cum Fenton, Warboys, Wistow, Bury, Ramsey, Farcet (all Huntingdonshire), Standground [Stanground] (Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire), Peterborough St John the Baptist, Paston, Werrington, Peakirk, Glinton, Northborough, Maxey (all Northamptonshire), Deeping St James, Market Deeping (Lincolnshire)... [parishes in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire]... Kirk Sandall, Barnby-on-Don, Owston (Yorkshire). Additional separate junction lines including railway 14 'Peterborough Junction' in same parish and railway 15 'Somersham Junction' in same parish. Notice of application includes Whittlesea [Whittlesey] St Mary, Whittlesea [Whittlesey] St Andrew and Rampton but these not evidenced in deposited plans. 'Engineers-in-chief': Hawkshaw, Fowler and Stephenson Acting engineers: Fraser and [John H.] Stanton Full title: Great Eastern Northern Junction Railway from the West Riding and Yorkshire Railway at Owston, to the Gt. Eastern Railway at Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire Historical note: 'the Great Eastern made a supreme effort by seeking powers to construct a completely independent line from Long Stanton... the GE had its bill thrown out' (C.J. Allen, The Great Eastern Railway, p.48) q.v. almost identical scheme with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway submitted following year listed below Related material: book of reference and plans & sections at CRO E/QS ('scheme 22') |