Great Eastern Railway - Wikipedia
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 lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
Welcome to the Great Eastern Railway Society website
We hope visitors will find plenty of interest about the former Great Eastern Railway (GER), its predecessors, successors and related railways in the East Anglia area. The Society caters for all aspects of the railway, both historical and modern day.
Great Eastern Railway Company - The National Archives
2024年11月16日 · This series documents the establishment and administration of the Great Eastern Railway Company. Documents include minutes of board, shareholders' and committee meetings, stock and share records,...
Locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway - Wikipedia
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 ( 1,524 mm ) gauge, was converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge in September and October 1844.
The GER - GER Society
The Great Eastern Railway. The formal opening of the Eastern Counties Railway on June 18th 1839, from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, heralded the beginning of the development of the railway system in East Anglia. Originally the ECR had obtained Parliamentary approval to raise the capital to build a railway from London to Norwich ...
LNER Encyclopedia: The Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a railway of extreme contrasts; it provided an intensive suburban service over a network of lines in the North to East sector of outer London; it ran some quite prestigious express services between London and Norfolk; it also ran some equally prestigious trains to compliment its Continental Maritime ferry ...
LNER Encyclopedia: The Great Eastern Railway: History of the GER's ...
The GER was formed by a gradual amalgamation of smaller lines, the most important and earliest of which was the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). The ECR prospectus was issued in 1834, two year later it received Royal Assent and construction commenced shortly after.
Great Eastern Railway - Simple English Wikipedia, the free …
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company. The company's main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
The Great Eastern Railway - The History Press
2007年4月1日 · The Great Eastern Railway rose phoenix-like from the ashes of bankruptcy to become one of the greatest of all passenger-carrying lines. Its empire ranged from London to East Anglia, to the coasts of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
Great Eastern Railway history and livery notes - IGG
Outline history of the Great Eastern Railway goods and freight working with information on livery, equipment, rolling stock and specific services for modellers and historians