page_title: Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
section_title: Extent of Joint Committee control
hierarchical_section_title: Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway / Extent of Joint Committee control
caption_attribution_description: English: System map of the central part of the GN and GE Joint Line, England, in 1879
context_page_description: The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line" was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with March and Huntingdon in the eastern counties of England. It was owned jointly by the Great Northern Railway and the Great Eastern Railway. It was formed by transferring certain route sections from the parent companies, and by the construction of a new route between Spalding and Lincoln, and a number of short spurs and connections. It was controlled by a Joint Committee, and the owning companies operated their own trains with their own rolling stock. The Joint Line amounted to nearly 123 miles of route.
  The motivation for its formation was chiefly the desire of the GER to get direct access to the coalfields of South Yorkshire and elsewhere, and the wish of the GNR to discourage more ambitious incursion by the GER into its own territory, as well as the provision of relief to its congested main line. The dominant traffic was coal, but a wide variety of manufactured and agricultural products was carried. There was some local passenger business, and some long-distance passenger trains used the route.
context_section_description: The extent of the route directly controlled by the Joint Committee was from Black Carr Junction, south of Doncaster, to Huntingdon by way of Lincoln Avoiding Line and St Ives (reverse); but there were discontinuities where the Joint Committee had running powers over other companies lines:
  Crossing the River Trent at Gainsborough: South (or West Trent) Junction to North (or East Trent) Junction; (MS&LR, later GCR);
  Through Spalding station: Spalding North Junction to Spalding Joint Line Junction; (GNR);
  Passing Whitemoor and March station: Grassmoor Junction to March, St Ives Junction; (GER); the GNR yard at Whitemoor was to be transferred to the GER;
  Approaching and through St Ives station: Needingworth Junction to St Ives Junction (GER).
  Additional sections that were under Joint Committee control were:
  Boultham Junction to West Holmes Junction (Lincoln);
  Spur towards Sleaford GNR station: Sleaford North Junction to West Junction;
  Ramsey branch (from 1 January 1897).
caption: The central section of the Joint Line
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