Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Dates
| / /1866 | South Eastern Railway Sir Edward Watkin (of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later the Great Central Railway) becomes chairman. |
| / /1880 | Channel Tunnel Borings made from Shakespeare Cliff. The tunnel to be of extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Great Central Railway) and Metropolitan Railway to France. Project abandoned due to defence and political reasons |
| / /1897 | Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company re-named the Great Central Railway. |
