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TitleGreat Eastern Railway, March and Spalding Line (Amended)
DescriptionTitle. Great Eastern Railway (March and Spalding line). Description. Amended plans and sections for the construction of a railway line to leave the Great Eastern Railway in the parish of Doddington (March), and terminating by a junction with the Great Northern Railway at or near the GNR junction with the Norwich and Spalding railway. NB. This scheme was rejected by Parliament in favour of GNR scheme (see page 48 of The Great Eastern Railway by Cecil J.Allen). Passing through the following parishes: Doddington St Mary, Whittlesey, St Andrew, Whittlesey, Thorney, (all in the Isle of Ely, county Cambridgeshire) Crowland, Deeping St Nicholas, Spalding, Pinchbeck (all in Holland, county Lincolnshire). Comprising: Plans and sections, 12 sheets, each 20" x 30". Scales: Plan and sections: Horizontal 5 chains (110 yards) to 1 inch. Vertical 100 feet to 1 inch. Cross sections: Horizontal 5 chains (110 yards) to 1 inch. Vertical 40 feet to 1 inch. Surveyor. Charles R. Cheffins. Engineers. John Hawkshaw, George Robert Stephenson, Robert Sinclair. Acting Engineer. John H. Stanton. Notes: Scheme abandoned, see above.
Date2 March 1863
CreatorNameCambridgeshire Clerk of the Peace: Plans of Public Undertakings
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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