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unusual facts about Northern Railway


Varanasi Junction railway station

It is partly under the administrative control of Lucknow Division of the Northern Railway Zone, and partly under the administrative control of Varanasi Division of the North Eastern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.


Davenport, Toronto

In 1861 the Northern Railway ran a rail line to the south of Davenport Rd and built a station in the area which they named Davenport.

Khanna rail disaster

The Khanna rail disaster occurred on November 26, 1998 near Khanna on the Khanna-Ludhiana section of India's Northern Railway in Punjab, at 03:15 when the Calcutta-bound Jammu Tawi-Sealdah Express collided with six derailed coaches of the Amritsar-bound "Frontier Mail" which were lying in its path.


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Charles Thurber

No monument exists at the site of the lynching, which took place on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway (later becoming the Great Northern Railway) bridge over the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

David Plowden

After working for the Great Northern Railway in 1959, Plowden studied under Minor White and Nathan Lyons, and was an assistant to O. Winston Link and George Meluso.

Dryden, Washington

Only the name Dryden was assigned to the area by the railroad in honor of Canadian horticulturist and Minister of Agriculture John Dryden who toured with Great Northern Railway president James J. Hill.

Fred Townley

Frederick L. Townley is an architect who designed many buildings in Vancouver, Canada, including Vancouver City Hall, the Great Northern Railway station (destroyed), the Capitol Theatre, Vancouver General Hospital, the Vancouver Stock Exchange Building, and the CNIB Building.

Ludington and Northern Railway

On July 18, 1901, the name was changed to Ludington and Northern Railway when Justus Smith Stearns purchased it.

N'dalatando

It is served by a station on the northern railway of Luanda Railway.

Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive No. 5

The Nahma and Northern Railway Locomotive #5 is a locomotive located at the corner of Main Street and River Street in Nahma Township, Michigan.

Nevada Northern Railway Museum

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is a railroad museum located in Ely, Nevada and operated by a historic foundation dedicated to the preservation of the Nevada Northern Railway.

Nowlands Gap

The New England Highway passes over the range here where there truck parking bays, and the Great Northern Railway passes under it via Ardglen Tunnel.

Pacific Northwest Corridor

The successor to the New Westminster Southern, the Great Northern Railway gained access to Vancouver with the completion of the New Westminster Bridge across the Fraser River in 1904.

Port Mann

Soon after the sale of land at Port Mann, Canadian Northern Railway was involved in a similar development near Montreal where the Town of Mount Royal was created in 1912 and construction was started on the Mount Royal Tunnel on July 8, 1912.

Q class

GNRI Class Q, a Great Northern Railway of Ireland locomotive class

Rail transport in New South Wales

A number of private lines were built to connect the South Maitland coalfields (discovered in 1886) with the Great Northern Railway at East Greta Junction near Maitland.

Sherwood station

Sherwood railway station, station on the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham Suburban railway in Nottingham

Terrys Creek

Terrys Creek is transversed by the Main North and the Northern railway lines, Epping Road, and the M2 Hills Motorway.

Tudela to Bilbao Railway

After the Northern Railway (Compañía del Norte) planned a railway from Madrid to Bilbao, bypassing Tudela, it was decided to build a railway to Bilbao and outline permission was granted in 1856.

Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad

By 1888, the Northern Railway extended the line northwest from Madison to Capay and Rumsey.

Warman, Saskatchewan

Soon the name of the town site was changed to Warman, named after Cy Warman (1855–1914), a journalist who followed and recorded the construction of the Canadian Northern Railway.

West Riding and Grimsby Railway

The WR&G gave the Great Northern Railway a new direct line to Wakefield from Doncaster on its north-south main line, and onwards to the Woollen District towns and the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Halifax over the tracks of the former West Yorkshire Railway, which it acquired in 1865; while the M.S.& L.R. could offer connections to Grimsby, and its docks, and the seaside resort of Cleethorpes.