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<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk:443/record/catalog/KHCP/8/6" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:title>Eastern Counties Railway: Branch from Chesterton to Huntingdon</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Passing through parishes: Chesterton (nr Cambridge), Impington, Histon, Oakington (including hamlet of Westwick), Rampton, Longstanton St Michael, Longstanton All Saints, Over, Fen Drayton (all Cambridgeshire); St Ives, Hemingford Grey, Houghton, Hemingford Abbots, Godmanchester (all Huntingdonshire). Engineers: Robert Stephenson and M.A. Borthwick. Surveyor ('lithographer'): C.F. Cheffins  Full title: Intended branch railway from Chesterton to Huntingdon. Scheme includes alternative terminus line proposal in parish of Godmanchester (Huntingdonshire)  Historical note: act obtained August 1845 (8 &amp; 9 Vict. cap. cci) for Cambridge-St Ives only. Line opened August 1847. Line from St Ives to Huntingdon (i.e. later Godmanchester station) opened on same day constructed under Ely and Bedford scheme q.v. HCP/8/10 below</dc:description>
  <dc:date>29 November 1844</dc:date>
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