M&GN Joint Railway

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The M&GN Joint Railway was a former British railway network in eastern England, jointly operated by multiple companies and known for linking numerous rural communities across Norfolk and surrounding counties.

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instanceOf joint railway
railway company
alsoKnownAs M&GN
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
closureReason declining traffic and duplication of routes
country United Kingdom
dateFormed 1893
endOperation 1959
formedFrom Eastern and Midlands Railway
King’s Lynn to Hunstanton railway line
surface form: Lynn and Fakenham Railway

Norfolk Railway
surface form: Norfolk Railway (parts)

Lynn and Ely Railway
surface form: Yarmouth Union Railway

North Norfolk Railway
surface form: Yarmouth and North Norfolk Railway
gauge standard gauge
headquartersLocation Melton Constable
heritageSuccessor Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society
North Norfolk Railway
knownFor dense network of lightly built lines
holiday traffic to Norfolk coast
linking many rural communities
locatedIn Cambridgeshire, England
surface form: Cambridgeshire

Lincolnshire
Norfolk
eastern England
majorJunction Bourne
Melton Constable
Norwich City F.C.
surface form: Norwich City

Peterborough North
South Lynn
Yarmouth Beach
nicknamed Muddle and Go Nowhere
operatedBy Great Northern Railway
Midland Railway
passengerClosure 1959
primaryTraffic agricultural freight
coal
holiday passengers
servedRegion East Anglia
Fens
surface form: The Fens

rural Norfolk
servedTown Bourne
Cromer
Great Yarmouth
Hunstanton (via connections)
King's Lynn
Norwich
Sheringham
Spalding
startOperation 1 January 1893
successorOperator London and North Eastern Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
trackGauge 1435 mm

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Emneth railwayLineHistorical M&GN Joint Railway