| Description | Passing through parishes: Long Stanton All Saints [Longstanton; where junctions with St Ives to Cambridge line], Willingham, Over (Cambridgeshire), Bluntisham cum Earith, Colne, Somersham, Pidley cum Fenton, Warboys, Wistow, Bury, Ramsey, Farcet (all Huntingdonshire), Standground [Stanground] (Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire), Peterborough St John the Baptist, Paston, Werrington, Peakirk, Glinton, Northborough, Maxey (all Northamptonshire), Deeping St James, Market Deeping (Lincolnshire)... [parishes in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire]... Kirk Sandall, Barnby-on-Don [where junctions with authorised South Yorkshire Railway], Owston [where junctions with existing Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and authorised Doncaster-Knottingley line of North Eastern Railway] (all Yorkshire) Additional separate junction lines include railway 2 Somersham, railway 3 Ramsey, and railway 4 Stanground (Cambridgeshire part only) Engineers: John Hawkshaw and Robert Sinclair Surveyor: C.R. Cheffins Historical note: 'later in [1864] the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway... tried to join hands with the G[reat] E[astern] in reviving the Long Stanton to Askern project, but without success' (C.J. Allen, The Great Eastern Railway, p.48) q.v. almost identical scheme of previous year HCP/8/44 Related material: book of reference and plans & sections at CRO E/QS ('scheme 27') |