| Description | Passing through parishes: Cambridge St Giles, Chesterton (nr Cambridge), Girton, Impington, Histon, Long Stanton St Michael, Long Stanton All Saints, Over, Willingham (all Cambridgeshire); Colne, Somersham, Pidley cum Fenton, Warboys, Ramsey (all Huntingdonshire); Whittlesea [Whittlesey] (Cambridgeshire); Peterborough, Eye, Newborough (all Northamptonshire); Deeping St James, Langtoft, Thurley, Bourn [Bourne].... Canwick, Lincoln, Skellingthorpe [junctions with Leeds & Selby Railway], Hambleton (all Lincolnshire).... Acaster Malbis, Bishopthorpe (Yorkshire) [junctions with York & North Midland Railway] . Includes route options Dowsby to Anwick (Lincolnshire). Book of reference additionally includes Trumpington, Cambridge St Botolph, Cambridge Little St Mary [St Mary the Less], Granchester [Grantchester] (all Cambridgeshire). Book of reference unbound and coverless. Full title: Extended Line, being from Cambridge to York, and passing into Cambs., Hunts., Northants., Notts., Lincs., and Yorks. Engineer: [James Walker based on surveys by N.W. Cundy q.v. Fellows, Railways to Cambridge, pp.2-3] Historical note: the act for the N&ER original line from London to Cambridge had been passed in 1836, although at that time they had not completed the surveys for the Extension Line (Fellows, op.cit., pp.8-10) which were submitted later that year forming this scheme. Proposal abandoned. Related material: plans & sections only of this scheme additionally at CRO City/[Bundle 149], book of reference only for this scheme at CRO E/QS ('scheme 1c'). N&ER scheme Bishops Stortford-Cambridge at CRO Q/RUm6 |