| Description | Passing through parishes: Longstanton All Saints [where junctions with St Ives to Cambridge line], Willingham, Over (Cambridgeshire), Bluntisham cum Earith, Colne, Somersham, Pidley cum Fenton, Warboys, Wistow, Bury, Ramsey (all Huntingdonshire), Whittlesey St Mary, Whittlesey St Andrew, Thorney (Cambridgeshire), Eye, Newborough, Borough Fen (extra-parochial; all Northamptonshire), Crowland, Deeping St Nicholas, Spalding, Cowbit, Pinchbeck (Lincolnshire)... New Sleaford, Leasingham, Ruskington... Lincoln St Peter at Gowts, Lincoln St Mary le Wigford... [various parishes in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire]... Barnby on Don, Owston, Burghwallis [where junctions with Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway] (Yorkshire) Engineer: Sir John Hawkshaw Historical note: '[the GER presented] its own bill for an independent line to the North; once again - and now for the last time - it was thrown out' (C.J. Allen, The Great Eastern Railway, pp.50-51) Related material: book of reference and plans & sections at CRO E/QS ('scheme 55') |