Northern and Eastern Railway

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The Northern and Eastern Railway (N&ER) was a British railway company that existed from 1836 to 1902 and opened up the areas northeast of London .

The N&ER was part of a project presented in 1836 to build a railway line from Islington via Cambridge , Peterborough and Lincoln to York . In the bill, which was discussed by Parliament in 1839/40, the section north of Bishop's Stortford was no longer included. On September 15, 1840, operations between Stratford and Broxbourne began, the extension to Bishop's Stortford followed on October 31, 1843. From January 1, 1844, the line was leased to the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). The ECR became part of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in 1862 , but the N&ER remained independent for another four decades and was not taken over by GER until 1902.

As with the partner company ECR, the tracks of the N&ER were initially laid with a gauge of five feet (1524 mm). In September and October 1844, the gauge was changed to the standard gauge of 4 feet and 8½ inches (1435 mm)

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