Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to:
Australia
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Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia
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Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia
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Central Australia Railway
The former Central Australia Railway, which was built between 1878 and 1929 and dismantled in 1980, was a Narrow-gauge railway, 1067 mm narrow gauge railway between Port Augusta railway station, Port Augusta and Alice Springs. A standard gau ...
was known as the great Northern Railway in the 1890s in South Australia
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Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia)
Canada
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Great Northern Railway of Canada
Ireland
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Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I), GNRI or simply GNR) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland. It was formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway. Th ...
New Zealand
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Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland
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Main North Line, New Zealand
The Main North Line, sometimes referred to as part of the South Island Main Trunk railway, is a railway line that runs north from Christchurch in New Zealand up the east coast of the South Island through Kaikōura and Blenheim to Picton. I ...
and Waiau Branch in Canterbury
United Kingdom
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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 ...
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Thameslink and Great Northern
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 ...
, a former operator of trains on this route, now merged with
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 ...
(GTR)
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West Anglia Great Northern, a former operator of trains on this route
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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 brand of GTR
United States
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Beaumont and Great Northern Railroad, predecessor of the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway, a defunct Texas shortline
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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 ...
, part of the BNSF Railway system
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Houston and Great Northern Railroad in Texas, a predecessor of the International – Great Northern Railroad
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International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, part of the Union Pacific Railroad
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New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern in Louisiana and Mississippi, part of the Canadian National Railway (freight transport) and Amtrak (passenger service) systems
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Paris and Great Northern Railroad in Texas, merged into the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, now part of the Kiamichi Railroad
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Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, operating in Wisconsin since 1997
See also
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Northern (disambiguation)
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