Northern & Eastern Railway

The Northern & Eastern Railway was part of a 1836 scheme for a railway in Great Britain from Islington to York via Cambridge, Peterborough and Lincoln. An Act of 1839/40 abandoned the section north of Bishops Stortford and introduced a deviation from Tottenham to Stratford. Service began on the 15 September 1840 between Stratford & Broxbourne. An extension to Bishops Stortford was opened on 16 May 1842 with a branch line to Hertford via Ware opening on 31 October 1843. The Railway was leased to the Eastern Counties Railway and that railway began operating services on 1 January 1844. The Eastern Counties railway was merged into the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on 1 July 1862 but the Northern & Eastern Railway survived as a private company until being merged into the GER in 1902.