Great Northern may refer to:

Transport

* One of a number of railways; see

Great Northern Railway (disambiguation) Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia *Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia * Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia *Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway i ...

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Great Northern Railway (U.S.) The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century Canadian-American railroad entrepreneur James Jerome Hill, James ...

, a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...

, a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: **

Great Northern Route The Great Northern route, formerly known as Great Northern Electrics, is the route consisting of services on the southern end of the East Coast Main Line, which is the main railway link between the cities of London and Edinburgh, and its ass ...

, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK **

Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) is a management contract for the provision of passenger services on the Thameslink and Great Northern route, Great Northern routes to , , , , , , Moorgate station, London Moorgate, Sutton railway s ...

, a franchise for the provision of this route **

Govia Thameslink Railway Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is a British train operating company that operates the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, TSGN rail franchise. Within the franchise, GTR runs trains under the sub-brands: Thameslink, Great North ...

(formerly ''Thameslink and Great Northern''), the company currently operating this franchise * Great Northern Tunnel, a rail tunnel in Seattle, Washington, United States. * GNR Class A1 1470 ''Great Northern'', a British steam locomotive of the Great Northern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway.

Other

Great Northern bean The navy bean, haricot bean, Jigna bean, pearl haricot bean, Boston bean, white pea bean, or pea bean is a variety of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris'') native to the Americas, where it was first domesticated. It is a dry white bean that ...

, a white common bean *

Great Northern Brewing Co. The Great Northern Brewing Co., commonly known as Great Northern, is a brand of full and a mid-strength Australian lager owned by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB), and brewed in Queensland at the CUB Yatala Brewery. It comes in 330mL "stubbi ...

, an Australian beer manufacturer *

Great Northern (country band) Robert Ernest Quist (born January 5, 1948) is an American musician and politician, known for his work in bluegrass and country music. Originally a founding member of the Mission Mountain Wood Band, he plays guitar and banjo in addition to singi ...

, led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist *

Great northern diver The common loon or great northern diver (''Gavia immer'') is a large member of the loon, or diver, family (biology), family of birds. Reproduction, Breeding adults have a plumage that includes a broad black head and neck with a greenish, purpli ...

(''Gavia immer''), a bird also known as the common loon *

Great Northern Elevator The Great Northern Elevator was a grain elevator, grain storage facility at 250 Ganson Street in Buffalo, New York. The elevator was located on the City Ship Canal and at the time of its completion in 1897, the elevator was the world's largest. Th ...

, a historic grain elevator in Buffalo, New York *

Great Northern (indie band) Great Northern is a rock group originally from Los Angeles composed of lead vocalist/multi instrumentalist Rachel Stolte, and guitarist/vocalist/multi instrumentalist Solon Bixler (formerly of Thirty Seconds to Mars). In 2007, they were signed ...

, led by former 30 Seconds to Mars member Solon Bixler *

Great Northern War In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern Europe, Northern, Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the ant ...

, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden *

Great Northern Warehouse The Great Northern Warehouse is the former railway goods warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester city centre, England, which was refurbished into a leisure complex in 1999. The building is at the junction of Deansgate and Peter S ...

, a leisure complex in Manchester, England *

Great Northern Paper Company Great Northern Paper Company was a Maine-based pulp and paper manufacturer that at its peak in the 1970s and 1980s operated mills in Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, and Wisconsin and produced 16.4% of the newsprint made in the United States. It was also ...

, a Maine pulp and paper manufacturer * '' Great Northern?'', a 1947 novel by Arthur Ransome in the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series, named after the diver * USS Great Northern (AG-9), a cargo ship of the US Navy {{disambiguation