1844) North British Railway became part of the London and North Eastern Railway on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921. Ballochney Railway opened 8 August 1828 Dundee and Arbroath Railway Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway opened 1831 Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened 28 July 1863 Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway authorised in 1878 Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway opened 1901 Kincardine Line open to Kincardine in 1893, and on to Dunfermline in 1906 Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway first public steam railway in Scotland opened 1826 Newburgh and North Fife Railway Slamannan Railway opened 31 August 1840 Stirling and Dunfermline Railway opened progressively between 1850 and 1853 West Highland Railway opened 7 August 1894 with an extension to Mallaig opened 1901. English and Welsh early railways This list of lines in England and Wales is ordered roughly by region, with the exception of the GWR which was a very large company even pre-1900. East Great Eastern Railway Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) opened 20 June 1839; original 5 ft gauge converted to standard in 1845, absorbed into GER Aug 1862 Eastern Union Railway, incorporated 1844, opened 1846, absorbed 1847. Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction Railway Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds Railway Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway, incorporated 1846, opened 1848 East Anglia Railway. absorbed into Eastern Counties Railway, Jan 1852 Saffron Walden Railway incorporated 1861, sponsored by ECR. Northern and Eastern Railway incorporated 1836 gauge conversion as with ECR London and Blackwall Railway, opened 1840, extended to Tilbury with ECR 1854 (authorised 1852 as London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR)), absorbed by GER 1866. Started with non-standard gauge, converted 1849. Ely, Haddenham and Sutton Railway (later Ely and St Ives Railway), authorised 1864, opened 1866, leased by ECR since opening, absorbed by GER 1897 Norfolk Railway Colne Valley and Halstead Railway, incorporated 1856 Harwich Railway East Anglian Railways (the plural is correct!) formed by merger in 1847. Bankrupt in 1851, it was operated by arrangement by ECR until the takeover by GER. Lynn and Dereham Railway Lynn and Ely Railway Ely and Huntingdon Railway East Suffolk Railway (re-incorporation of the "Halesworth, Beccles and Hadiscoe Railway" in 1854), absorbed by ECR 1859 Yarmouth and Haddiscoe Railway absorbed 1858 Lowestoft and Beccles Railway absorbed 1858 Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway incorporated 1893 Great Western Railway Great Western Railway incorporated 1835, opened London to Maidenhead