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2 unusual facts about Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway


Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

The Leicester to Peterborough service was stopped as a war economy in 1916, and Medbourne station was closed.

They also built the Fletton curve in Peterborough between Longville junction on the LNWR line and Fletton junction on the GNR main line to allow trains arriving from the west to access the GNR station in Cowgate.


Scalford

Scalford station was on the GNR and LNWR Joint Line from Market Harborough to Bottesford, while a number of mineral lines, attracted by the iron-ore mining which used to take place in this part of the Vale of Belvoir, completed the triangle.


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