| Description | Passing through parishes: 'Main Line, scheme parts I-III' St Pancras, Islington St Mary, Hornsey, Tottenham (all Middlesex); East Barnet (Hertfordshire); Monken Hadley, Enfield, South Mimms (all Middlesex)... Eynesbury, St Neots, Great Paxton, Offord d'Arcy [Darcy], Offord Cluney [Cluny], Godmanchester, Huntingdon St Mary, Huntingdon St John the Baptist, Great Stukeley, Abbots Ripton, Wood Walton, Sawtry Judith, Sawtry All Saints, Sawtry St Andrew, Connington [Conington], Holme, Denton, Caldecot [Caldecote], Stilton, Yaxley, Fletton, Woodstone [Woodston] (all Huntingdonshire); Peterborough St John the Baptist, Paston, Marholm, Glinton, Peakirk, Helpstone, Maxey (all Northamptonshire); Tallington, Uffington... Grantham, Belton (Lincolnshire)... Acaster Malbis, Bishopthorpe, York St Mary Bishophill Snr, York St Mary Bishophill Jnr, York Holy Trinity Micklegate Scheme also includes branches forming part IV 'Lincoln Line' i.e. loop line via Lincoln; and part V Sheffield Line ('Bawtry to Sheffield') and Wakefield Line ('Doncaster to Wakefield'). Scheme also includes in part I, branches to Bedford from Sandy, and to Stamford from Maxey, the latter passing through parishes: Maxey, Ufford (Northamptonshire); Tallington, Uffington (Lincolnshire); Barnack, Stamford St Martin (Northamptonshire); Stamford St George, Stamford All Saints (Lincolnshire) Engineers: Part I Samuel Hughes; Parts II and III Sherrard & Hall; Part IV W.F. Fairbank; Part V Martin, Johnston & Fox [although Joseph Locke was overall engineer prior to his resignation during September 1844 (O.S. Nock, The Great Northern Railway, pp.5-6)] Historical note: act obtained for Part I without branches and Parts II-IV in June 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. cap. lxxi) as The Great Northern Railway Company q.v. J. Wrottesley, The Great Northern Railway, pp.12-18; Nock, op.cit., pp.1-10 Line opened London-Peterborough August 1850. Original finding aid description reads: 'Part 1. Plans and sections for London to Grantham, containing on title page a memorandum of deposit with Clerk of the Peace comprising plans on sheets 1-54A viz: plans of Biggleswade Alternative Line, sheets 1-7; plans of Bedford Branch sheets 1-4; (plans of Stamford wanting); longitudinal sections 54 sheets + 7 for Biggleswade alternative line + for Stamford Branch + 4 of cross section of roads. (Acc 269, formerly numbered 130). Part 2. Plans and sections for Grantham to Bawtry comprising plans sheets 54-74; sections sheets 54-74; 2 sheets cross sections of roads (formerly numbered 115) Part 3. Title page wanting. Plans and sections of Blyth Nottingham-York comprising plans sheets 75-94 (94 composed of several sheets numbered 16-20); Part 4. The Lincoln line via Peterborough, Spalding and Boston. Lincoln and Gainsborough to Bawtry. Plans and sections. Sheets Lincoln 1-31 and unnumbered cross sections. Part 5. Bawtry to Sheffield and Doncaster to Wakefield. Plans and sections numbered Sheffield 1-14 and Wakefield 1-9 + sections (12 + 2 + 7). Also a small scale map of the London and York Railway with table of distances, 1 January 1845. A publicity map, not a deposited plan' [this last now refoldered and forming HCP/8/9/5. A further rolled publicity map of December 1844 not showing connecting lines forms HCP/8/9/4] Related material: a coloured folded undated copy of horizontal plans of Great Northern Railway in Huntingdonshire in Tebbutt Collection Acc2743 |