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Midland and Great Northern Railway
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway.
The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway
The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Bill for the curve at Yarmouth passed in Parliament on 6 August 1897, becoming the Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee Act 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. clxxxii) and the establishment of the Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway (N&SJR) was enacted by the Great Eastern Railway and Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. cxx) on 25 July 1898. The Lowestoft line opened on 13 July 1903.