Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway may refer to:

  • Great Northern Railway of Canada
  • Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
  • Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
  • Great Northern Railway (U.S.), now part of the BNSF Railway system
  • Great Northern Railway in Queensland, Australia
  • Great Northern Rail Services in Australia
  • International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, United States
  • Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland
  • Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia)
  • Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury
  • Mobile and Great Northern Railroad in Alabama, United States
  • New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern in Louisiana and Mississippi
  • Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, operating in Wisconsin, United States since 1997

Famous quotes containing the words northern and/or railway:

    “You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
    To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
    And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)