134 The Nineteenth Century- 



Cambridge to St Ives and Huntingdon.' 

 Ely to Lynn. 

 March to St Ives. 

 {a) Chesterford to Newmarket.^ 

 (b) Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds. 



(a) Hitchin to Royston. 



(b) Royston to Shepreth. 

 Shepreth to Shelford.3 

 Cambridge to Six Mile Bottom.'* 

 Bedford to Cambridge (L.N.W.R.), entering the 



County north of Potton. 

 Shelford to Haverhill (Suffolk). 

 March to Spalding.5 



(a) Ely, Haddenham and Sutton. 



(b) Sutton to Needingworth (Hunts). 



15. Peterborough, Wisbech, and Sutton. 



16. Ely to Newmarket. 



(a) Cambridge (BarnweU) to Fordham. 



(b) Fordham to MildenhaU. 



(a) Goods line from Three Horse Shoes Junction to 

 Burnt House Siding. 



(b) Burnt House Siding to Benwick. 



4- 

 5- 

 6. 



7- 



9- 



10. 

 II. 



12. 

 13- 

 14- 



17- 



17 August 1847. 

 26 October 1847. 



I February 1848. 



4 April 1848. 



1 April 1854. 



2 October 1850. 



3 August 1851. 

 25 April 1851. 



9 October 1851. 



I August 1862. 

 I June 1865. 

 I April 1867. 

 6 April 1866. 

 10 May 1878. 

 I August 1866. 



1 September 1879. 



2 June 1884. 

 I April 1885. 



1 September 1897. 



2 August 1898. 



' By agreement of 26 June 1 864, the Midland trains ran from Kettering to Cambridge 

 over this line. 



^ The section of this line from Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom (about 12 miles in 

 length) was closed on 9 October 185 1, upon the opening of the line from Six Mile 

 Bottom to Cambridge. It was abandoned by the Eastern Counties Railway Act of 

 1858. The deserted cuttings and embankments are still striking features of the land- 

 scape. 



3 The G.N.R. were compelled by their Act to permit the G.E.R. to meet them at 

 Shepreth, and did not get rumiing powers over the line to Cambridge imril 1866. 

 Before the Shelford and Shepreth line was made available, the G.N.R. used to run 

 coaches from Shepreth to Cambridge by road, in comiection with their trains, timed 

 to do the distance (9 miles) in 40 minutes. 



'' To join the unabandoned section of the Chesterford-Newmarket line. There was 

 an extension from Newmarket to Bury St Edmunds on i April 1854. The junction 

 at Cambridge Station was taken out when the present diversion hne over Coldham's 

 Common was opened on 17 May 1896. 



5 Originally a G.N.R. hne, but owned jointly with the G.E.R. up to the Railways 

 Act of 1921. 



