| Description | Passing through parishes: Newport, Wendons Ambo, Littlebury (all Essex); Ickleton, Great Chesterford, Trumpington, Cambridge St Andrew the Less, Fen Ditton, Chesterton, Milton, Waterbeach, Stretham, [Little] Thetford, Ely Trinity and Ely St. Mary (all Cambridgeshire); Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Brandon (all Suffolk); Weeting, Santon, Thetford (all Norfolk). Branches to Peterborough and Wisbech: Ely Trinity and Ely St Mary, Witchford, Coveney, Witcham, Chatteris, Doddington, Benwick, Whittlesey, Stanground (all Cambridgeshire), Fletton (Huntingdonshire); Elm, Wisbech St Peter (Cambridgeshire) Engineer: Robert Stephenson. Surveyor: C.F.Cheffins. Full title: 'intended railway commencing by a junction with the Northern and Eastern Railway in the parish of Newport and teminating at Thetford, also of an intended railway from Ely to Peterborough, and of a branch Railway to Wisbeach [Wisbech]'. Historical note: act obtained July 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. cap. lxii) authorizing Newport-Cambridge-Brandon and Ely-Peterborough sections, although the latter using deviation via March (see CRO Q/RUm10). Line opened July 1845. Related material: book of reference and plans & sections at CRO Q/RUm11 |