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Great Eastern Railway (March and Spalding line)
Catalogue reference: Q/RUm/49
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Q/RUm/49
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Title (The name of the record)
- Great Eastern Railway (March and Spalding line)
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Description (What the record is about)
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Title Great Eastern Railway, March and Spalding Line.
Description:
- Construction of a railway line to leave the Great Eastern Railway in the parish of Doddington, (March) and terminating by a junction with the Great Northern Railway near the G.N.R. junction with the Norwich and Spalding railway.
- N.B. This scheme was rejected by Parliament in favour of a G.N.R. scheme (see page 48 of The Great Eastern Railway by Cecil J. Allen).
Passing through the following parishes:
- Doddington, Whittlesey, Thorney, (all in the Isle of Ely, co. Cambridgeshire). Crowland, Deeping St. Nicholas, Spalding, Pinchbeck, (all in Holland, co. Lincolnshire).
Comprising:
- Plans and sections, 12 sheets each 20 x 30.
- Book of reference.
- Printed summary of bill.
- Ordnance survey sheet, (scale 1 inch to 1 mile).
Scales:
- Plan and section: Horizontal 5 chains (110 yards) to 1 inch; Vertical 100 feet to 1 inch.
- Cross sections: Horizontal 5 chains (110 yards) to 1 inch; Vertical 40 feet to 1 inch.
Surveyor Charles R. Cheffins.
Engineers John Hawkshaw, George Robert Stephenson, Robert Sinclair.
Acting Engineer John H. Stanton.
N.B. This scheme rejected by the House of Commons in favour of Great Northern proposals.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cambridgeshire Archives
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Plan deposited 29 November 1862.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/85a9cdf3-e758-4c0f-acb6-7f6c559a8be2/
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Great Eastern Railway (March and Spalding line)