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3 unusual facts about Great Eastern


Aldeburgh Branch Line

The terminus of the line at Aldeburgh consisted of a single platform with an attractive overall roof - quite an unusual feature for the Great Eastern.

Edward Riche

Riche had occasionally performed for the radio, which sparked an interest in co-creating and writing for,The Great Eastern.

John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde

Under Burns, Cunard was also quick to order a steel vessel, the first in their service being the SS Servia in 1881, which, apart from the Great Eastern, was the largest liner afloat at the time.


Bessacarr Halt railway station

Bessacarr railway halt was a small halt on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway in the suburbs of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.

Bowman Malcolm

Thomas Worsdell had followed up the idea on the Great Eastern and North Eastern railways in England and Bowman Malcolm was to bring it to Ireland.

Locomotive Publishing Company

His extensive writing for the magazine was anonymous, although he is known to have written a long and notable series of articles on Great Eastern locomotives, published between 1901 and 1913.

Millwall

On 31 January 1858, the largest ship of that time, the SS Great Eastern designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched from Napier Yard, the shipyard leased by Messrs J Scott Russell & Co.

Wendling railway station

Wendling railway station was a railway station in Wendling, Norfolk on the Great Eastern line between Dereham and King's Lynn.

Wissington, Norfolk

It left the Denver (on the Great Eastern mainline, the Fen Line), to Stoke Ferry Railway at Abbey Junction, which was located near Station Farm.


see also

Alfred Hill

Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 1912–1922

British Rail Class 360

In April 2004 First Group lost the franchise to the National Express Group, who operated the Great Eastern routes as part of their National Express East Anglia franchise.

Great Eastern Ranges

The Great Eastern Ranges extend from southern Victoria to north of Cairns in Queensland, Australia, encompassing the Great Dividing Range and the Great Escarpment – two very old, mountainous, sometimes undulating and occasionally tableland landscapes situated on the eastern side of the continent.

Great Eastern Steeplechase

The Great Eastern Steeplechase is an Australian Thoroughbred steeplechase horse race held annually at Oakbank, South Australia on Easter Saturday and Monday at the Oakbank Racecourse as part of the Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival.

Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway

The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway (GNGEJR) was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and its rival, the Great Eastern Railway.

Great Yarmouth railway station

Yarmouth South Town railway station was owned by the Great Eastern Railway but operated as the a Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway and ran services through Gorleston and Lowestoft to join with the current East Suffolk Line for a mainline service to London.

High Wycombe, Western Australia

During the peak commuter period in the peak direction of travel, route 299 is replaced by route 295, operating limited stops along Great Eastern Highway, and route 296 is supplemented by route 298, which additionally serves a greater area of the west of the suburb and travels to Esplanade Busport via Shepperton Road.

Mumbiram

As English renderings of great eastern classics these are in the same league as Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "Arabian Nights" of Richard Francis Burton or Edwin Arnold’s "Light of Asia".

Owl's Hill Nature Center

Fossil traces in Ordovician limestone and 300-year-old giant trees, vestiges of the great eastern deciduous forest that once covered Tennessee, are important collections on the site, as are pioneer trees and seasonal wildflowers.