Ely and Bedford Railway Passing through parishes: Ely [Holy] Trinity, Ely St Mary, Thetford, Stretham, Wilburton, Haddenham, Willingham, Over, Cottenham (all Cambridgeshire); Holywell-cum-Needingworth, St Ives, Fenstanton, Hemingford Grey, Houghton, Hemingford Abbots, Godmanchester, Huntingdon St Mary, Offord Cluny, Offord d'Arcy, Buckden, Brampton, Diddington, Great Paxton, St Neots (all Huntingdonshire); Eaton Socon, Little Barford (Bedfordshire); Eynesbury (Huntingdonshire); Roxton, Blunham, Great Barford, Renhold, Willington, Cople, Cardington, Goldington, Bedford St Mary (all Bedfordshire) Engineer: G.W. Buck Surveyors: Nevins & Lawton Full title: Railway from the City of Ely to the Town of Bedford Historical note: act obtained June 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. cap. xlvii) for Ely to Huntingdon only, thereafter named Ely to Huntingdon Railway ('called the Ely and Bedford until restricted in the 1845 Parliament' D.I. Gordon, Regional History of the Railways Volume V, p.133). Opened August 1847 St Ives to Huntingdon on same day as Chesterton to St Ives q.v. HCP/8/6 above. Ely-St Ives not constructed due to financial constraints, even after re-authorisation in 1849 30 November 1844