North Eastern Railway (UK) - Constituent Parts of The NER

Constituent Parts of The NER

Constituent companies of the NER are listed in chronological order under the year of amalgamation.

Their constituent companies are indented under the parent company with the year of amalgamation in parenthesis.

If a company changed its name (usually after amalgamation or extension), the earlier names and dates are listed after the later name.

1854

• York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway was York and Newcastle Railway (1846-1847) and Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway (1842-1846)
  • Durham Junction Railway (1844)
  • Brandling Junction Railway (1845)
  • Durham and Sunderland Railway (1846)
  • Pontop and South Shields Railway (1846)
    • Stanhope and Tyne Railway (1842)
  • Newcastle and Berwick Railway (1847)
    • Newcastle and North Shields Railway (1845)
  • Great North of England Railway (1850)
• York and North Midland Railway
  • Leeds and Selby Railway (1844)
  • Whitby and Pickering Railway (1845)
  • East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway (1852)
• Leeds Northern Railway was Leeds and Thirsk Railway (1845-1849)
• Malton and Driffield Railway

1857

• Deerness Valley Railway
• Hartlepool Dock and Railway

1858

• North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway

1859

• Bedale and Leyburn Railway

1862

• the "N.E.R. Foss Island BR" railway line, which appears on the 1860 Ordnance Survey map near Elmfield College
• Hull and Holderness Railway
• Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
  • Blaydon, Gateshead and Hebburn Railway (1839)

1863

• Stockton and Darlington Railway
  • Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway (1858)
  • Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway (1858)
  • Middlesbrough and Redcar Railway (1858)
  • Wear Valley Railway (1858)
    • Bishop Auckland and Weardale Railway (1847)
  • Eden Valley Railway (1862)
  • Frosterley and Stanhope Railway (1862)
  • South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway (1862)

1865

• Cleveland Railway
• West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway
  • Clarence Railway (1853)
  • Stockton and Hartlepool Railway (1853)

1866

• Hull and Hornsea Railway

1870

• West Durham Railway

1872

• Hull and Selby Railway

1874

• Blyth and Tyne Railway

1876

• Hexham and Allendale Railway
• Leeds, Castleford and Pontefract Junction Railway

1882

• Tees Valley Railway

1883

• Hylton, Southwick and Monkwearmouth Railway
• Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway

1889

• Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway

1893

• Wear Valley Extension Railway

1898

• Scarborough & Whitby Railway

1900

• Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway

1914

• Scarborough, Bridlington and West Riding Junction Railway

1922

• Hull and Barnsley Railway