Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
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The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and its rival, the Great Eastern Railway. It was established in the early 1880s, and the joint company built a new, primarily freight, route between Cambridge and Doncaster, a distance of about 123 miles. The main purpose was to move Yorkshire coal into East Anglia, a highly profitable enterprise.
The route survived until its partial closure in the 1980s.
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- Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway from The Signal Box website
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