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North Eastern Railway

British railway company, active 1854–1922
Organization Railway Company Q787383

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
railway company

Status and dates

Inception
1854[9]
Replaced by
London and North Eastern Railway[17]
Replaces
York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Scarborough and Whitby Railway, Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway, Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway, Leeds Northern Railway[11][12][13][14][15][16]

Location

Headquarters location
York[8]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North East England[2]

Relations

Follows
Hull and Barnsley Railway, Eden Valley Railway, Leeds and Selby Railway[4][5][6]
Followed by
London and North Eastern Railway[7]
Owner of
Forge Valley Line, North Eastern Railway 13[20][21]
More facts +3
Date of official opening
1854[19]
Described by source
Signalling Record Society line data[10]
Reporting mark
NE[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en NER en North Eastern Railway he מסילת רכבות צפון מזרח he רכבות צפון מזרח ja ノース・イースタン鉄道 sv North Eastern Railway, Storbritannien zh 英国东北铁路公司 zh 英國東北鐵路 zh-hant 英國東北鐵路公司
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
123129218
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n50078061
GND ID
6510276-9
FES digital collections entity ID
417273
Freebase ID
/m/04b552
Grace's Guide ID
North_Eastern_Railway
J9U entity ID
987008682285605171
RailScot line or company ID
N/North_Eastern_Railway/
Science Museum people ID
cp3504
Topic's main category
Category:North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)
Wellcome Collection concept ID
b6h24d57
Yale LUX ID
group/febb119c-d87a-43ac-8ba4-eafb39b24997
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 2 statements · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

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0000 0001 2218 5286 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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Dissolved, abolished or demolishedP576
1923 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
where from?
Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
Bronze
41a59441281a5f69… opendata-index.html +10 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
🔗 Connections
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Signalling Record Society line data
Employees / affiliates 1
Frank Pick
Followed by 1
London and North Eastern Railway
Followed by (predecessor) 1
London and North Eastern Railway
Headquarters location 1
York
Instance of 1
railway company
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
North East England
Owned entities 1
North Eastern Railway 13
Owner of 1
North Eastern Railway 13
Replaced by 1
London and North Eastern Railway
Replaces 1
Stockton and Darlington Railway
← Operator 1
NER Class ES1/2
← Replaced by 1
Stockton and Darlington Railway
← Replaces 1
London and North Eastern Railway
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Summary

North Eastern Railway is a railway company[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Signalling Record Society line data
    Headquarters location → York
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → North East England
    Followed by → London and North Eastern Railway
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: FES digital collections entity ID: 417273, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782462304762"
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