Great Eastern Railway
pre-grouping British railway company
Facts
10 properties- Instance of
- railway company
- Inception
- 1862[4]
- Country
- United Kingdom[2]
- Followed by
- London and North Eastern Railway[3]
- Short name
- GER[19]
- Date of official opening
- 1862[18]
- Described by source
- Signalling Record Society line data[6]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1923[5]
- Replaced by
- London and North Eastern Railway[17]
- Replaces
- Eastern Counties Railway, Northern and Eastern Railway, Downham and Stoke Ferry Railway, East Norfolk Railway, Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway, Lynn and Dereham Railway, Norfolk Railway, West Norfolk Junction Railway, Ely and Newmarket Railway, Swaffham Branch[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
🏷️ Also known as
en GER
en Great Eastern Railway
ar شركة قطارات الشرق الكبرى
ja グレート・イースタン鉄道
ja グレートイースタン鉄道
zh 大东铁路
zh 大東方鐵路
zh 大東部鐵路
zh 大東部鐵路 (英國)
zh-hant 大東鐵路
🔖 Identifiers · 9
- VIAF cluster ID
- 124303735
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n50054996
- GND ID
- 252796-0
- Freebase ID
- /m/02_c5v
- Grace's Guide ID
- Great_Eastern_Railway
- RailScot line or company ID
- G/Great_Eastern_Railway/
- Science Museum people ID
- cp3882
- Topic's main category
- Category:Great Eastern Railway
- Yale LUX ID
- group/3d7de8d3-dca9-4504-8953-72e517232b70
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- GND (DNB)
- Edition
- 20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
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Summary
Great Eastern Railway is a railway company[1].