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    The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly...
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  • Great British Railways (GBR) is a planned state-owned railway company that is to oversee passenger rail transport in Great Britain, with the exception...
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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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    Great British Railway Journeys is a 2010–present BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister who...
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  • Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria...
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  • The following is a list of locomotives built for the Great Northern Railway. As is customary, engine classes are organized according to the man who was...
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    The Great Northern route, formerly known as Great Northern Electrics, is the name given to suburban rail services run on the southern end of Britain's East...
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    The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I) or GNRI) was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway company in Ireland. It was formed in 1876 by a...
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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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    as part of the Northern Hub. The first electric railway in Great Britain was Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, a pleasure railway, which opened in...
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    The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely...
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  • of the BNSF Railway. Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: Great Northern Route, a group...
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    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
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  • The Great Northern Railway developed an extensive network over time, having started in 1846 with the intention of connecting London and York, as well as...
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    This is a list of railway lines in Great Britain that are currently in operation, split by country and region. There are a limited number of main inter-regional...
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  • This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain on the National Rail network for the 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 financial year. The...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales...
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    The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed...
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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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    The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening...
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  • Great Northern Railway are the railways, past and present, in the English county built or operated by the Great Northern Railway. The Great Northern Railway...
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    The Northern City Line is a commuter railway line in England, which runs from Moorgate station to Finsbury Park in London with services running beyond...
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    found success in London. The character of Lord Grantham references the Great Northern Road in the television series Downton Abbey. The National Cycle Route...
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    The railway system of Great Britain started with the building of local isolated wooden wagonways starting in the 1560s. A patchwork of local rail links...
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    rail franchising in Great Britain is the system of contracting the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain to private companies...
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    The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), also known as the Piccadilly tube, was a railway company established in 1902 that constructed...
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    SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from...
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  • series title. Similar series were broadcast in 1983, Great Little Railways, and 2010, Great British Railway Journeys. The first series featured the first television...
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    Henry Ivatt (category Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) people)
    25 October 1923) was an English railway engineer, and was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1896 to 1911. Educated at Liverpool...
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    List of A roads in zone 1 in Great Britain beginning north of the River Thames, east of the A1 (roads beginning with 1). "Old Stoke Bridge, Ipswich"....
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