The Ramsey East Branch by Peter Paye (Paperback, 2018) 9780853614517 BRAND NEW
The Ramsey High Street (later Ramsey East) branch in Huntingdonshire was a relative latecomer to the East Anglian railway scene. After the opening of the Ramsey Railway to connect with the Great Northern Railway main line at Holme in 1863, many abortive attempts were made to continue to the Great Eastern Railway St Ives to March Line. The GER having acquired the majority of the shares in the Ramsey Railway from under the nose of the GNR made no attempt to extend east of the town. Thus the Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway was promoted and financed by local businessmen but it required four Acts of Parliament and fourteen years before the seven mile line was opened linking Ramsey to Somersham via Warboys. However, failure to connect with the branch from Holme effectively sealed the new line, opened in 1889, to a domicile fate. Operated from the outset by the GER, who christened the terminal station as Ramsey High Street, salvation might have come when the line became the only branc.
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