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The N&ER was part of a 1836 scheme for a Railway in Great Britain from Islington to York via Cambridge , Peterborough and Lincoln . An Act of 1839/40 abandoned the section north of Bishops Stortford and introduced a deviation from Tottenham to Stratford . Service began on the 15 September 1840 between Stratford & Broxbourne . An extension to Bishops Stortford was opened on 16 May 1842 with a branch line to Hertford via Ware opening on 31 October 1843 . The Railway was leased to the Eastern Counties Railway and that railway began operating services on 1 January 1844 . The Eastern Counties railway was merged into the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on 1 July 1862 but the Northern & Eastern Railway survived as a private company until being merged into the GER in 1902 . Like its partner, the N&ER was originally built to five-foot gauge, which was converted to standard gauge in 1844. |
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