| Description | Passing through parishes: 'From GER at Trumpington to the GER at Long Stanton All Saints'; Trumpington, Granchester [Grantchester], Cambridge St Giles, Chesterton, Impington, Histon, Oakington, Long Stanton St Michael, Long Stanton All Saints; 'From Long Stanton to Bourne': Long Stanton All Saints [Longstanton; where junctions with St Ives to Cambridge line], Rampton, 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, Langtoft, Baston, Thurlby, Bourne (all Lincolnshire) Railways 4 & 5 in schedule continue Bourne-Sleaford-Lincoln [where junctions with Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway] and includes scheme 'From Lea Union Canal to GER at Low Leyton' (Essex) and supplement 'Additional lands on the banks of the Regent's Canal' (Middlesex) Engineer: Charles Bartholomew Short title: C.O.A.L. Railway Historical note: 'proposed by Earl Fitzwilliam, and backed by a consortium of Yorkshire coal owners… a House of Commons committee rejected the scheme on 22 May 1871' (P. Waszak, Rail Centres: Peterborough, pp.17-19) Related material: book of reference and plans & sections at CRO Q/RUm67 |