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  <dc:title>Great Eastern Railway. Northern Extension</dc:title>
  <dc: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 &amp; 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 &amp; sections at CRO E/QS ('scheme 55')</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[November 1877]</dc:date>
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