Northern and Eastern Railway

The Northern and Eastern Railway ( N & ER) was a British railway company that existed from 1836 to 1902 and the north-east of London lying areas opened up.

The N & ER was part of a presented in 1836, the project to build a railway line from Islington via Cambridge, Peterborough and Lincoln to York. In the bill that was 1839/40 advised by the Parliament, the section was, however, no longer contained north of Bishop's Stortford. On September 15, 1840, the Operating between Stratford and Broxbourne was taken, the extension to Bishop's Stortford was followed on 31 October 1843. Effect from 1 January 1844, the track was leased to the Eastern Counties Railway ( ECR). The ECR was in 1862 in the Great Eastern Railway ( GER), but the N & ER was more independently four decades and was only adopted in 1902 by the GER.

The tracks of the N & ER (1524 mm) As with the trading partner ECR were initially been laid to a gauge of five feet. In September and October 1844, the gauging was carried out on the standard gauge of 4 feet and 8 ½ inches ( 1435 mm)