Great Northern may refer to:

Transport

* One of a number of railways; see

Great Northern Railway (disambiguation) Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia *Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia *Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia *Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway in ...

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Great Northern Railway (U.S.) The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific ...

, a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...

, a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: **

Great Northern Route The Great Northern route (formerly known as Great Northern Electrics) is the name given to suburban rail services run on the southern end of Britain's East Coast Main Line and its associated branches. Services operate to or from and in Lon ...

, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK ** Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern, a franchise for the provision of this route ** Govia Thameslink Railway (formerly ''Thameslink and Great Northern''), the company currently operating this franchise * GNR Class A1 1470 ''Great Northern'', a British steam locomotive of the Great Northern Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway.

Other

Great Northern bean The navy bean, haricot, pearl haricot bean, Boston bean, white pea bean, or pea bean is a variety of the common bean ('' Phaseolus vulgaris'') native to the Americas, where it was first domesticated. It is a dry white bean that is smaller than ...

, a white common bean * Great Northern Brewing Co., an Australian beer manufacturer *

Great Northern (country band) Robert Ernest Quist (born January 5, 1948) is an American singer, instrumentalist (playing guitar and banjo), songwriter, and politician. Originally a founding member of the Mission Mountain Wood Band, his songs have also been recorded by artis ...

, led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist * Great northern diver (''Gavia immer''), a bird also known as the common loon *

Great Northern Elevator The Great Northern Elevator is a grain storage facility at 250 Ganson Street in Buffalo, New York. The elevator is located on the City Ship Canal and at the time of its completion in 1897, the elevator was the world's largest. The elevator was th ...

, a historic grain elevator in Buffalo, New York *

Great Northern (indie band) Great Northern is a rock group originally from Los Angeles composed of lead vocalist/multi instrumentalist Rachel Stolte, and guitarist/vocalist/multi instrumentalist Solon Bixler (formerly of Thirty Seconds to Mars). In 2007, they were signed w ...

, led by former 30 Seconds to Mars member Solon Bixler *

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...

, a war fought by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland against Sweden *

Great Northern Warehouse The Great Northern Warehouse is the former railway goods warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester city centre, England, which was refurbished into a leisure complex in 1999. The building is at the junction of Deansgate and Peter St ...

, a leisure complex in Manchester, England * Great Northern Paper Company, a Maine pulp and paper manufacturer * '' Great Northern?'', a 1947 novel by Arthur Ransome in the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series, named after the diver *

USS Great Northern (AG-9) ''Great Northern'' was a passenger ship built at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company, itself a joint venture of the Great ...

, a cargo ship of the US Navy {{disambiguation