- Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to
Norwich and which had various other lines throughEast Anglia . The company was grouped into theLondon and North Eastern Railway in 1923.Overview
The GER was formed in 1862 by amalgamation of the
Eastern Counties Railway with several smaller railways: theNorfolk Railway , theEastern Union Railway , theNewmarket Railway , theHarwich Railway , theEast Anglian Light Railway and theEast Suffolk Railway , amongst others. In 1902 theNorthern and Eastern Railway joined the GER.Among the principal towns served were
Southend-on-Sea ,Chelmsford ,Colchester ,Ipswich ,Lowestoft ,Great Yarmouth , Norwich,Cambridge andKing's Lynn , and many of the East Anglianseaside resort s such asHunstanton andCromer . It also served a busy suburban traffic area, includingEnfield ,Chingford ,Loughton andIlford . This highly efficient suburban network was, in the early 20th century, the most heavily used steam-hauled commuter system in the world.The majority of its
locomotive s were manufactured inStratford works , which was on the site of today'sStratford International station .The GER owned over 1,200 miles of line and had a near-monopoly of services in East Anglia until the opening of the
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway in 1893.See also
* Locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway
External links
* [http://www.gersociety.org.uk/ Great Eastern Railway Society]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040331014645/http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pstoog/trains/company/g/company_ger.htm Archived copy of a page containing comprehensive details of those railways]
* [http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/LNER_GER1.html Shipping interests of the company]
* [http://www.mrua.org Manningtree Rail Users Association]
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