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• Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
  Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
  
  The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, was a joint railway owned by the Midland Railway and the Great Northern Railway in eastern England....
   (M&GN): joint working by Midland Railway
  Midland Railway
  
  The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
   and Great Northern Railway
  Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
  
  The Great Northern Railway was a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846....
   (MR/GNR), and latterly London and North Eastern Railway
  London and North Eastern Railway
  
  The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four British railway companies" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain....
   and London, Midland and Scottish Railway
  London, Midland and Scottish Railway
  
  The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a United Kingdom railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 300 separate railway companies into just four....
   (LNER/LMS). This was the UK's biggest joint railway system at 183 miles (295km) and operated with its own locomotives and rolling stock
  Railroad car
  
  A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive....
  . The system stretched mainly East-West, from Yarmouth via South Lynn to Bourne and Peterborough and thence, via the parent companies' systems, to Leicester and the Midlands or to London King's Cross. A North-South route ran from Norwich (City terminus) to Cromer. The two routes crossed at Melton Constable, the joint railway's main engineering centre.
• Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
  Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
  
  The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway was a British joint railway company. The company was Railways Act 1921 into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923....
   (N&S): in the strange position of having as one of its two parents another joint railway, the Midland and Great Northern (the other was the Great Eastern Railway
  Great Eastern Railway
  
  The Great Eastern Railway was a Railways Act 1921 British railway company, whose Great Eastern Main Line linked Liverpool Street station to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia....
  ). There were two stretches of line: the most important ran along the East Anglian coast from Lowestoft to Yarmouth, while a much shorter stretch ran from Cromer to Mundesley on the North Norfolk coast.
• Isle of Axholme Joint Railway
  Isle of Axholme Joint Railway
  
  The Axholme Joint Railway was built as a joint enterprise between the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the North Eastern Railway . It became joint property on 1 October 1901....
   : joint working by North Eastern
  North Eastern Railway (UK)
  
  The North Eastern Railway , was an England rail transport company. It was incorporated in 1854, when four existing companies were combined, and was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 in 1923....
   and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
  Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
  
  The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major History of rail transport in Great Britain before the Railways Act 1921. It was Incorporation_#Incorporation_in_the_United_Kingdom in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing Rail transport....
  s (NER/LYR) 27.5 miles (44km)
• Cheshire Lines Committee
  Cheshire Lines Committee
  
  The Cheshire Lines Committee was the second largest joint railway in Great Britain. Despite its name 143 route miles were in Lancashire. In its publicity material it was often styled as the Cheshire Lines Railway....
  : Great Northern
  Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
  
  The Great Northern Railway was a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846....
  , Great Central
  Great Central Railway
  
  The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its Great Central Main Line ....
   and Midland Railway
  Midland Railway
  
  The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
  s (GNR/GCR/MidR) 140 miles (224km) operated with its own rolling stock
  Railroad car
  
  A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive....
  .
• Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
  Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway
  
  The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and its rival, the Great Eastern Railway....
  , from Huntingdon
  Huntingdon railway station
  
  Huntingdon railway station serves the town of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. The station has three platforms, although only two are normally used in day to day workings with one being used for amended workings alongside other operators....
   and Spalding
  Spalding railway station
  
  Spalding railway station serves the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England.Spalding is on the branch line to Lincoln operated by an hourly service in both directions usually by British Rail Class 153 single car units....
   to Doncaster
  Doncaster railway station
  
  Doncaster railway station serves the town of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the East Coast Main Line north of London Kings Cross, and is about ten minutes walk from Doncaster town centre....
  , with a branch to Ramsey
  Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
  
  Ramsey is a small Cambridgeshire market town, north of Huntingdon and St Ives, Huntingdonshire. For local government purposes it lies in the district of Huntingdonshire within the local government county of Cambridgeshire....
  : operated jointly by the Great Northern
  Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
  
  The Great Northern Railway was a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846....
   and Great Eastern
  Great Eastern Railway
  
  The Great Eastern Railway was a Railways Act 1921 British railway company, whose Great Eastern Main Line linked Liverpool Street station to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia....
   Railways (GNR/GER) 123 miles (197km)
• East London Railway: run by a committee of the Great Eastern
  Great Eastern Railway
  
  The Great Eastern Railway was a Railways Act 1921 British railway company, whose Great Eastern Main Line linked Liverpool Street station to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia....
  , London, Brighton and South Coast
  London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
  
  The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922. Its territory formed a rough triangle, with London at its apex, practically the whole coastline of Sussex as its base, and a large part of Surrey....
  , South Eastern and Chatham
  South Eastern and Chatham Railway
  
  The South Eastern and Chatham Railway was a working amalgamation of two neighbouring rival railways, the South Eastern Railway and London, Chatham and Dover Railway , that operated services between London and Southeast England....
  , Metropolitan
  Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways
  
  The Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway were the first two underground railways to be built in London, creating the world's first Rapid transit system....
   and District
  Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways
  
  The Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway were the first two underground railways to be built in London, creating the world's first Rapid transit system....
   Railways (GER/LBSCR/SE&CR/MetR/District) 7 miles (11km)
• Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Committee: operated by the Metropolitan
  Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways
  
  The Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway were the first two underground railways to be built in London, creating the world's first Rapid transit system....
   and Great Central
  Great Central Railway
  
  The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its Great Central Main Line ....
   Railways (MetR/GCR)
• Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway: LNWR/GCR 9 miles (14km) electrified
  Railway electrification system
  
  A Railway electrification system supplies Electric potential energy to railway locomotives and multiple units so that they can operate without having an on-board Prime mover ....
   in 1931
• Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway
  Portpatrick Railway
  
  The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway, often known as the Port Road, was a railway in south-west Scotland, which linked Dumfries, via Castle Douglas, with the port towns of Portpatrick and Stranraer....
  : owned by the Caledonian
  Caledonian Railway
  
  The Caledonian Railway was a major Scotland railway company operating in Scotland. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921....
  , Glasgow and South Western
  Glasgow and South Western Railway
  
  The Glasgow and South Western Railway , one of the pre-Railways Act 1921, served a triangular area of south-west Scotland, between Glasgow, Stranraer and Carlisle....
  , London and North Western
  London and North Western Railway
  
  The London and North Western Railway was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main L...
   and Midland
  Midland Railway
  
  The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
   Railways (CR/G&SWR/LNWR/MR) 82 miles (131km)
• Preston and Wyre Joint Railway
  Preston and Wyre Joint Railway
  
  |}The Preston and Wyre Joint Railway - in full, the Preston & Wyre Railway and Dock Company - was the result of a merger in 1839 between:...
  : L&YR/LNWR before amalgamation in 1922 45 miles (72km)
• Great Western and Great Central Railways Joint Committee: operated by the Great Western
  Great Western Railway
  
  The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
   and Great Central
  Great Central Railway
  
  The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its Great Central Main Line ....
   Railways (GWR/GCR) 41 miles (66km)
• Severn and Wye Joint Railway: Great Western Railway
  Great Western Railway
  
  The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
   (GWR)/MidR 39 miles (62km)
• Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
  Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
  
  The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Western Railway The line was built between 1850 and 1853....
  : operated by the Great Western
  Great Western Railway
  
  The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
   and London and North Western
  London and North Western Railway
  
  The London and North Western Railway was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main L...
   Railways (GWR/LNWR) 56 miles (90km)
• Shrewsbury and Wellington Railway
  Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company
  
  The Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company was a Company in England, formed in 1846, which managed several canals and a railway. It was leased by the London and North Western Railway from 1847, and bought by it in 1922, but continued to act as a semi-autonomous body, managing the canals until their abandonment in 1944....
  : operated by the Great Western
  Great Western Railway
  
  The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
   and London and North Western
  London and North Western Railway
  
  The London and North Western Railway was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main L...
   Railways (GWR/LNWR) 10.5 miles (17 km)
• Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
  Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
  
  The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway ? almost always referred to as "the S&D" ? was an English railway line connecting Bath, Somerset in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire....
  : London and South Western Railway
  London and South Western Railway
  
  The London and South Western Railway was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Its network extended from London to Plymouth via Salisbury and Exeter, with branches to Ilfracombe and Padstow and via Southampton to Bournemouth and Weymouth, Dorset....
   (LSWR) and Midland Railway
  Midland Railway
  
  The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
   101 miles (162km) operated with its own locomotives and rolling stock
  Railroad car
  
  A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive....
  .
• South Yorkshire Joint Railway
  South Yorkshire Joint Railway
  
  South Yorkshire Joint Railway was a committee formed in 1903, between the Great Central Railway , the Great Northern Railway , the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , the Midland Railway and the North Eastern Railway to oversee the construction of a new railway in the Doncaster area of South Yorkshire, England....
  : GCR/GNR/L&YR/MidR/NER 20 miles (32km)
• Furness and Midland Joint Railway
  Furness and Midland Joint Railway
  
  |}The Furness and Midland Joint Railway was a joint railway in England owned by the Furness Railway and the Midland Railway.Construction was agreed in 1862 for a line from Carnforth, on the Furness system and Wennington, Lancashire on the Midland Railway line from Yorkshire to Morecambe; Royal assent was received in June 1863....
  : 9½ miles (15km)
• Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Joint Committee
  Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways
  
  The Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway were the first two underground railways to be built in London, creating the world's first Rapid transit system....
  , Mansion House
  Mansion House tube station
  
  Mansion House is a London Underground station in the City of London, near Mansion House, London . It is a sub-surface station served by trains on the Circle line and District Line Lines....
   to Aldgate
  Aldgate tube station
  
  Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station located at Aldgate in the City of London.The station is on the Circle line between Tower Hill tube station and Liverpool Street station....
   on the Circle Line: MetR/District 1 mile (1.5km)
• Forth Bridge Railway
  Forth Bridge (railway)
  
  The Forth Bridge is a cantilever bridge railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, to the east of the Forth Road Bridge, and 14 km west of central Edinburgh....
  ; owned by the North British
  North British Railway
  
  The North British Railway was a Scotland rail transport company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 in 1923....
  , Great Northern
  Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
  
  The Great Northern Railway was a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom established by the London & York Railway Act of 1846....
  , North Eastern
  North Eastern Railway (UK)
  
  The North Eastern Railway , was an England rail transport company. It was incorporated in 1854, when four existing companies were combined, and was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 in 1923....
   and Midland
  Midland Railway
  
  The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922 when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....
   Railways (GNR/MR/NBR/NER) 2765yds (2528m)
• County Donegal Railways Joint Committee
  County Donegal Railways Joint Committee
  
  The County Donegal Railways Joint Committee operated in north-west Ireland, during the 20th century. It was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1906, which authorized the joint purchase of the then Donegal Railway Company by the Great Northern Railway and the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee....
  : owned by the Northern Counties Committee
  Northern Counties Committee
  
  The Northern Counties Committee was a railway that served the north-east of Ireland. Originally constructed to the Irish standard gauge of 5 ft 3 in , a number of 3 ft 0 in narrow gauge lines were acquired later....
   and Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
  Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
  
  The Great Northern Railway was an Ireland railway company formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway , Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway....
   (MidR(NCC)/GNR(I)) and operating over 111 miles (178 km) of narrow gauge track in Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland
  
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   and the Republic of Ireland
  Republic of Ireland
  
  Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
   with its own locomotives and rolling stock
  Railroad car
  
  A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotive....
  .

United States

Main article: Terminal railroad

• Belt Railway of Chicago
  Belt Railway of Chicago
  
  The Belt Railway of Chicago , headquartered in Chicago, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by six Class I railroads — BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad — each of which uses the swi...
   (BRC), the largest terminal switching railroad in the U.S. and co-owned by all of the "Big Six" of American Class I railroad
  Class I railroad
  
  A Class I railroad in the United States and Mexico, or a Class I rail carrier in Canada, is a large freight railroad company, as classified based on operating revenue....
  s: Union Pacific Railroad
  Union Pacific Railroad
  
  The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....
  , CSX Transportation
  CSX Transportation
  
  CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway....
  , Norfolk Southern Railway
  Norfolk Southern Railway
  
  The Norfolk Southern Railway is a major Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada....
  , BNSF Railway
  BNSF Railway
  
  The BNSF Railway , often referred to as the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas, is one of the four remaining transcontinental railroads and one of the largest railroad networks in North America....
  , Canadian National Railway
  Canadian National Railway
  
  The Canadian National Railway is a Canada Class I railroad operated by the Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec....
   and Canadian Pacific Railway
  Canadian Pacific Railway
  
  The Canadian Pacific Railway , known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canada Class I railroad operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited....
  .
• Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
  Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
  
  The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis is a terminal railroad owned by railroads in St. Louis, Missouri which handles traffic through its metropolitan area....
   (TRRA), which extensive operations in East St. Louis, Illinois
  East St. Louis, Illinois
  
  East St. Louis is a city located in St. Clair County, Illinois, USA, directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. As of the United States Census 2000, the city had a total population of 31,542, less than half its peak in 1959....
   and St. Louis, Missouri
  St. Louis, Missouri
  
  St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
  , and co-owned by all of the Big Six except for Canadian Pacific.
• Conrail Shared Assets Operations
  Conrail Shared Assets Operations
  
  Conrail Shared Assets Operations is an United States railroad company. It operates three networks?the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, where it serves as a local carrier and switching company for CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway....
   (CSAO), the last corporate remnant of Conrail, which itself was formed from the remains of several bankrupt railroads in 1976; that company was split between CSX and Norfolk Southern, which then formed CSAO in northern New Jersey
  New Jersey
  
  New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
  , greater Philadephia, Pennsylvania and greater Detroit, Michigan
  Detroit, Michigan
  
  Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
  . Unlike the BRC and TRRA, CSAO uses crews and locomotives from its two parent companies, and does not maintain roling stock under its own name, though the former Conrail paint scheme is still seen on numerous locomotives and freight cars that CSX and NS inherited in the split.
• The Powder River basin
  Powder River Basin
  
  The Powder River Basin is a region in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming about east to west and north to south known for its coal deposits....
   joint line, co-owned by BNSF and Union Pacific to serve the area's numerous coal mines.

Bibliography

See also

• List of early British railway companies
  List of early British railway companies
  
  The following list sets out to show all the railway companies set up by Acts of Parliament in the 19th century until the late 1850s. Most of them became constituent parts of the emerging main-line railway companies, often immediately after being built....
  
• List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping
  List of railway companies involved in the 1923 grouping
  
  Under the Railways Act 1921 the majority of the railway companies in Great Britain were grouped into four main companies, often termed the Big Four British railway companies....
  
• Joint station (UK), Union station
  Union station
  
  A union station or union terminal is a train station where tracks and facilities are shared by two or more railway companyies, allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them....
   (USA)