GER Information

In this section of the website you will find lots of information about the Great Eastern Railway. If you want to delve deeper, then also explore the GERS Collection.

The Society covers not only the Great Eastern Railway itself, but also its predecessors, related railways in East Anglia and its successors, present and past.

The Predecessors

Eastern Counties * Blackwall * Northern & Eastern * Norwich & Yarmouth * Norfolk * Eastern Union * Lynn & Ely * Lynn & Dereham * Ipswich & Bury * Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury & Halstead * Stratford & Thames Junction * East Anglian * Newmarket * East Suffolk * Waveney Valley * Wells & Fakenham

The Great Eastern Era

Great Eastern * Lynn & Hunstanton * Tendring Hundred * Ware, Hadham & Buntingford * Saffron Walden * Ely, Haddenham & Sutton * Tottenham & Hampstead Junction *Thetford & Watton * East London Joint * East Norfolk * Thetford & Swaffham * Bury St Edmunds & Thetford * Felixstowe * Ely & St. Ives * London & India Dock Co. * Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint * Wisbech & Upwell Tramway * Ramsey & Somersham Junction * Norfolk & Suffolk Joint * Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast * Midland & Great Northern Joint * London, Tilbury & Southend * Mid Suffolk Light * Southwold * Colne Valley & Halstead * Tottenham & Forest Gate

The Successors

London & North Eastern Railway * London Passenger Transport Board * Central Line * London Transport * British Railways (Eastern Region) * British Rail * London Underground Limited * Network South East * Intercity * Docklands Light Railway * Railtrack * First Great Eastern * West Anglia Great Northern * Anglia Railways * c2c (LTS Rail) * Central Trains * One * EWS * Freightliner * Network Rail * Network Express East Anglia * Abellio Greater Anglia * London Overground