Great North of Scotland Railway
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The ‘’Great North of Scotland Railway’’ (GNSR) received its Parliamentary approval on June 26 1846, following over two years’ of local meetings. Its eventual area encompassed the three Scottish counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Morayshire. Although the line had several branches, its remoteness and the fact that it served an area far removed from the rest of Britain, has resulted in all but its main line remaining today. At the Grouping in 1923 it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway.
The external link has a comprehensive history of the Railway.
The company had its locomotive works at Inverurie, a few miles North-West of Aberdeen.
[edit] Component Companies
The GNSR was one of the few companies that retained their original name until the grouping.
It absorbed the following small local companies prior to that event :-
- Aberdeen and Turriff Railway
- Aboyne and Braemar Railway
- Alford Valley Railway
- Banffshire Railway
- Banff, Macduff and Turriff Extension Railway
- Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway
- Deeside Extension Railway
- Deeside Railway
- Denburn Valley Railway
- Formartine and Buchan Railway
- Fraserburgh and St Coombs Light Railway
- Inverurie and Old Meldrum Railway
- Keith and Dufftown Railway
- Morayshire Railway
- Strathspey Railway
[edit] External links
- A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway (Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd, 1949)
| Major constituent railway companies of the London and North Eastern Railway: |
Great Central |
Great Eastern |
Great Northern |
Great North of Scotland |
Hull & Barnsley |
North British |
North Eastern
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